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Dr. Szilvia Ruszev
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Szilvia Ruszev

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Film editor and media artist

Vita

Dr. Szilvia Ruszev is a cross-media film editor and media artist.

She graduated from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf with a degree in editing and holds a PhD in Media Arts and Practice from the University of Southern California. She is currently a lecturer at Bournemouth University.

Professionally, she has traversed artistic as well as academic fields. This alternation between practice and theory is informed by an ongoing interest in experimentation, interdisciplinarity and social critique.

Her experience as a film editor ranges from cinema feature films and documentaries to video art and experimental and immersive projects. She has worked with internationally renowned directors such as Peter Greenaway, Anders Østergaard and János Szász and her work has won awards at numerous festivals such as Karlovy Vary IFF, Toronto IFF, Berlin IFF. With the short film Wagah (directed by Supriyo Sen), she won the promotional award for editing at Film+ in 2009.

In her artistic research, she likes to experiment with the materiality of time-based media, both to explore different technologies and to question the technological realities of each medium. The works span from Super 8 film to site-specific installations, to digital formats such as video essays, virtual reality and internet-based art. In terms of content, she explores themes such as the interaction between space, place and personal history, radical expressions of the materiality of the female body and the visualisation of montage rhythm. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions such as Siggraph, Codame, Femmebit and Geneva IFF.


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