IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

Name: Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing
Start: 2026-10-21T11:30:00+0300
End: 2026-10-21T12:00:00+0300

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Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

While the Soviet film archive exemplified a colonial model of cultural preservation, serving a centralised, militarised state and determining which films and language versions deserved conservation; national archives in the ‘no-longer-post-Soviet’ space (Tlostanova 2024), particularly in Ukraine, largely emulated this structure. Their collections were built around state studio feature production, however, often remaining incomplete and improvised due to the unwillingness of the Russian film archives to repatriate non-Russian films to their countries of production. Meanwhile, Ukrainian students’ works, amateur films, ‘useful cinema’ (Acland and Wasson 2011), and other ‘ephemeral’ forms (Prelinger 2006) remained in a preservation grey zone. Russia’s neocolonial war against Ukraine has further foregrounded the vulnerability of state archival collections, including those of the Dovzhenko Centre and the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive, while also prompting significant discoveries outside formal institutional frameworks. These findings challenge the notion of national film heritage and raise questions about the future of these materials. This paper examines three examples of liminal archives: 1) an amateur film collection compiled by Oleksandr Makhanets at the Lviv Center for Urban History; 2) rushes of popular science films discovered by Oleksii Radynskyi in the Kyivnaukfilm studio attic; and 3) a collection of student films identified by Alik Derman and Volodymyr Prylutskyi at the Ukrkinokhronika/Karpenko-Kary University facilities. Despite the fact that a number of these materials have been catalogued, digitised, or publicly screened, there is still a lack of clarity regarding their long-term preservation in proper environmental condition.

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Oleksandr Teliuk

Postgraduate Researcher, Queen Mary University of London

Oleksandr Teliuk is a film archivist, scholar, artist, and currently a postgraduate researcher at Queen Mary University of London. As a film archivist, he worked at the Dovzhenko Center, the Ukrainian state film archive (2015–23), where he headed the non-film archives department... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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