Alina Ozerova

Participant

Alina Ozerova is a filmmaker and sound artist. Born in Moscow (1983), she has lived in Amsterdam for the past 12 years, and since 2023 is based in Barcelona. In her documentary practice, she explores episodes of personal, family, and collective history that deal with exile, evacuation, migration, and oppressive restriction of movement. This curiosity about cycled movements of bodies and voices stretches into her sound practice. Often more humorously, Ozerova’s participatory installations engage the physicality of the audience and movement to create experiences with shifted perceptions of control and power toward sonic situations or narratives.

Her education includes degrees in sociology (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and audiovisual arts (Gerrit Rietveld Academy). She also studied film at the San Francisco Art Institute and completed a European postgraduate program in arts in sound (KASK, Belgium). Ozerova’s films and sound projects have been shown at various film festivals and exhibitions in the Netherlands, Russia, and across Europe. She has been a part of the Amsterdam-based initiative “The Other Abilities” focused on sensory
translation. And for the past 10 years, Ozerova has been collaborating with FEST: New Directors / New Films Festival (Portugal) as an experimental short film programmer.