Taras Spivak

director
Education
NaUKMA
Biography
Taras Spivak is a Kyiv-based director and editor. Until 2022, Taras studied at the Department of Cultural Studies of the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and his interests include media archaeology, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. From 2018 to 2020, he was co-curating the cine-club of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2021, Taras and his fellow film enthusiasts worked on cataloguing the archive of the Kyivnaukfilm studio. Since 2021 he has worked in film production, specialising in editing non-fiction films and organising post-production. Using found footage and objects in his directing, Spivak works towards engaging in a dialogue with the traditions of film essay, political film, and scientific cinema.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Under the Sign of Anchor (2024, director, producer), Infinity According to Florian (2022, assistant editor), I Did Not Want to Make A War Film (2022, editor), Butterfly Vision (2022, post-production coordinator & VFX artist), Belarus 23.34 (2023, editor)

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