Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner are artists, filmmakers and writers working collaboratively since 2018.

Focusing on moving image as a tool for the active production of new worlds, their practice has been driven by questions about the thresholds between the body and its surroundings, knowledge regimes and power, modes of organizing and perceiving the natural world. Their collaborative work has been presented globally, including at the  Berlinale, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Open City Docs, EXiS Seoul film festivals, Tate Modern, CAC Vilnius, Los Angeles Filmforum, Museum of the Moving Image NY, Transmediale, Sonic Acts, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Taiwan Video Art Exhibition and the Baltic Triennial, and was featured on the Criterion Channel. Their films have won numerous awards including the Silvestre Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato Film Festival. They are the authors of All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Sonic Acts Press: 2021). Beny Wagner is a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, and holds a PhD from the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group at Winchester School of Art. Sasha Litvintseva is a senior lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London, and holds a PhD in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths.