Oleksandr Isaienko is a Ukrainian artist working across photography, experimental film, text, and digital media. Born in 1976 in Izmail (then part of the UkrSSR), he has developed a distinctive visual language that explores the human body, transformation, and vulnerability within unknown and shifting environments.
His work often engages with themes such as decay, confrontation with the unknown, ecological and political collapse, and the boundaries of human perception. Through hybrid techniques combining analog footage, AI-generated imagery, and generative sound, Isaienko creates visual experiments that blur distinctions between natural and digital, organic and artificial, intimate and vast.
He currently lives and works in San Diego, California.
Awards:
2026 Festival Internacional de Cine y Multimedia #6, Buenos Aires / Argentina
2025 Fotogenia International Cinepoetry and Divergent Narratives Festival #7, Mexico / Mexico
( Special Mention )
2025 Cannes International Film Week, Cannes / France
2023 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos FICMA, Mexico / Mexico
2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA ( Honorable mention )
2022 Silk Road Film Festival, Cannes / France
2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia
2021 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10, Lodz / Poland ( Special Mention )
2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland ( Distinction )
2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland
2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5, Krasnodar / Russia
2013 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #28, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2012 THE #1 The Video Community, Krakow / Poland
Some of the screenings and exhibitions:
2026 Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Ontario / Canada
2026 Art + Film + Vienna Film Festival #3, Vienna / Austria
2026 Fouri BIF&ST #2, Bari / Italy
2026 Festival Internacional de Cine y Multimedia #6, Buenos Aires / Argentina
2025 Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art #3, Kyiv / Ukraine
2025 Proceso de Error Festival Internacional de Video Experimental #10, Valparaiso / Chile
2025 Experimental Superstar Festival, Novi Sad / Serbia
2025 Fotogenia International Cinepoetry and Divergent Narratives Festival #7, Mexico / Mexico
2025 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali, Forli / Italy
2025 BEAST International Film Festival #8, Porto / Portugal
2025 Cross Cities Festival - Resistance: Time for Peace, Sant’Agata de’ Goti / Italy
2025 Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart / Germany
2025 AA29 Video Project Film Festival Photography Contest, Caserta / Italy
2025 Cannes International Film Week, Cannes / France
2025 Premio Don Sante Arte Contemporanea #3, Casamassima / Italy
2025 “Even Horizon” Annual Festival of Alternative Art #29, Yerevan / Armenia
2025 Mientras tanto Cine Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental #7, Montevideo / Uruguay
2024 In Out Festival #16, Gdansk / Poland
2024 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine
2024 Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta / Indonesia
2024 MientrasTanto Cine #6, Montevideo / Uruguay
2024 Ghent International Short Film Festival, Gent / Belgium
2024 Vilnus International Film Festival, Vilnus / Lithuania
2024 The Experiments in Cinema v19.8, Albuquerque / USA
2024 Martinique International Film Festival, Online
2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA
2023 Festival Cinema Zero, Trento / Italy
2023 Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art #2, Kyiv / Ukraine
2023 IDKF Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany
2023 REX Animation Festival # 9, Stockholm / Sweden
2023 Producer's Night Los Angeles, Los Angeles / USA
2023 London Super Shorts Film Festival, London / United Kingdom
2023 Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale / USA
2023 Alternative Film and Video Festival, New Belgrade / Serbia
2023 Bardak Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema #7, Kharkiv / Ukraine
2023 International Alternative Media Film Festival FICMA # 8, Mexico / Mexico
2023 INTERMEDIACIONES Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase #10, Antioquia / Colombia
2023 DOBRA Experimental Film Festival #9, Rio de Janeiro, Sau Paolo / Brazil
2023 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali, Forli / Italy
2023 Nectar from Another Planet, Poznan, Warsaw / Poland
2023 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine
2023 Bogota Experimental Film Festival #9, Bogota / Colombia
2023 Bridge Film & Video Festival, Chicago / USA
2023 Concepcion Independent Film Awards #9, Concepcion / Chile
2023 Madatac Audiovisual Art Festival #12, Madrid / Spain
2023 Cannes 7th Art Awards #4, Cannes / France
2023 New York Independent Film Festival #14, New York / USA
2023 "Alchimies numériques" Immix Gallery, Paris / France
2023 The Experiments in Cinema v18.4, Albuquerque / USA
2023 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #38, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2022 Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta / Indonesia
2022 Pasa Festival #5, Suwon / Korea
2022 Bardak #6 Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema, Kyiv / Ukraine
2022 Simultan Festival #17, Timisoara / Romania
2022 Re-connect Art Festival of Performance and Video Art, Prague / Czech
2022 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine
2022 Suspaustas Laikas Experimental Film and Arts Festival, Nida / Lithuania
2022 International Festival of Fine Arts #11, Kranj / Slovenia
2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine, Los Angeles and Rockville / USA
2022 Frame & Frequency #8, International Film & Video Art Screening Series, Rockville / USA
2022 Video Art in Support of Ukraine with VAFT, Turku / Finland
2022 Tampere Film Festival #52, Tampere / Finland
2022 EXPERIMENTA Transformação Audiovisual #3, Funchal / Portugal
2021 Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb / Croatia ( Online )
2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia
2021 IDKF - Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany
2021 Fonlad Festival Internacional De Video Arte E Perfomance (Online)
2021 Pugnant Film Series Goes to Punk , Athens / Greece
2021 Proyector Video art Festival, Madrid / Spain
2021 Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain
2021 ALC Videoart Festival, Alicante / Spain
2021 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediate, Forli / Italy
2021 Encuentros Internacionales Traverse #24, Toulouse / France
2021 An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm / Sweden
2021 Panorama Video Art + Experimental Cinema #3, VisualcontainerTV International Videoart WebTV (Online)
2021 Нungry Eyes Festival, / Germany (Online)
2020 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #22, Paris / France
2020 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10, Maribor / Slovenia, Lodz / Poland
2020 "Unseen" Simultan Festival #15, Timisoara / Romania
2020 LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine (Online)
2020 IFF International Film Festival - Elysium gallery, Swansea / UK (Online)
2019 AVAF - Addis Video Art Festival #3, Addis Ababa / Ethiopia
2019 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos #4, Mexico / Mexico
2019 Artpro International Video Art Festival, Dhaka / Bangladesh
2019 Cinespacio Festival Internacional #5, Cali / Colombia
2019 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #21, Paris / France
2019 BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain
2019 Facade Video Festival #10, Plovdiv / Bulgaria
2019 Horn Contemporary Film Festival #2, Jerusalem / Israel
2019 "Parallel screens"
1805 gallery, San Diego / USA,
Hermes Artes Visuais, Sao Paulo / Brasil,
Nova Art Space, Weimar / Germany
2019 “Suspaustas Laikas” Eksperimentinio kino festivalis, Nida / Lithuania
2019 LIF - Little Islands Festival, Sikinos / Greece
2019 FIAV - Festival International d'art Vidéo de Casablanca, Casablanca / Morocco
2019 Over the real - Festival Internazionale Videoarte, Lucca / Italy
2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2019 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali #4, Cesena / Italy
2019 The Experiments in Cinema v14.2, Albuquerque / USA
2019 Themeless Timeless Disciplinele Formless - Samples #7, Mexico / Mexico
2019 "To see more lighT" - Pugnant Film Series #2, Athens / Greece
2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland
2018 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest #35, Kassel / Germany
2018 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris # 20, Paris / France
2018 Horn Festival, Jerusalem / Israel
2018 Video Art Miden Festival #14, Kalamata / Greece
2018 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland
2017 Interference Festival Free Form #4, Gdansk / Poland
2017 Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Hsinchu / Taiwan
2017 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #19, Paris / France
2017 Transmission Art Festival, Kassel / Germany - Warszawa / Poland - Kassel / Germany
2017 Watch Out Film Festival, Tetovo / Macedonia
2017 Fracto - ACUD, Berlin / Germany
2017 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland
2017 IVAHM - International Video Art House Madrid, Madrid / Spain
2016 Art Video International Festival, Jerusalem / Israel
2016 Espacio Enter - International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture #8, Tenerife / Spain
2016 FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte #6, Buenos Aires / Argentine
2016 "I Do Care But I Don`t Understand" BBKL - BUND BILDENDER KÜNSTLER LEIPZIG e.V, Leipzig / Germany
2016 RETHink ART Digital Festival, Rethymno / Greece
2016 Staunton International Film Festival, Staunton / Virginia
2016 "Breach" Rabbithole Gallery, New York / USA
2016 "Around the Axis" AkT , Kyiv / Ukraine
2016 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) #4, Winnipeg / Canada
2016 Urban Nomad Film Festival #15, Taipei / Taiwan
2016 Photobook in Russia, Dom Metenkova, Yekaterinburg / Russia
2016 MADATAC Audiovisual Art Festival #7, Madrid / Spain
2015 Edinburgh Artists' Moving Image Festival (EAMIF), Edinburgh / Scotland
2015 "Praeparatio" Festival of experimental poetry, Novosibirsk / Russia
2015 Festival Des Cinemas Differents #17, Paris / France
2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland
2015 Facade Video Festival #6, Plovdiv / Bulgaria
2015 Art Video Israel - International Video Art Festival, Netanya / Israel
2015 "Poetry in Visual" - Gallery of Capitania Building, Aveiro / Portugal
2015 Incubarte International Art Festival #7, Valencia / Spain
2015 « Un Homme » Chapitre III - Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris / France
2015 Experiments in Cinema Festival #10, Albuquerque / New Mexico
2015 « Protecht» - Bank Space Gallery, London / United Kingdom
2015 Zoom-Zblizenia International Film Festival #18, Jelenia Góra/ Poland
2014 Without Words Film Festival (WWFF), Lorraine / France
2014 Les Instants Vidéo Festival #27, Marseille / France
2014 Encontros da Imagem - International Photography Festival “Hope & Faith”, Braga / Portugal
2014 AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes / France
2014 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish
2014 Videoformes International Digital Art Festival #29, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2014 SLINGSHOT Festival of Music, Electronic Arts, and Technology, Athens / Georgia
2014 International Extra Short Film Festival MAMM #14, (Multimedia Art Museum Moscow), Moscow / Russia
2014 Berlin International Directors Lounge #10, Berlin / Germany
2013 Streaming Festival #8, Zagreb / Croatia
2013 VIDEOMEDEJA #17 International Video Festival, Novi Sad / Serbia
2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5, Krasnodar / Russia
2013 Multimedia Showcase #3, Porto / Portugal
2013 Watch Out! Film Festival - Museum of Communist Party, Tetovo / Macedonia
2013 Videoformes #28 International Digital Arts Festival, Clermot-Ferrand / France
2013 Internationell Konst Film Utstallning (IKFU) - Portrait in the moving image - Vandalorum Centrum for Konst och Design, Varnamo / Sweden
2013 Directors Lounge - Urban research, Berlin / Germany
2013 CologneOFF #8 - Continental Drift, Sattal / India
2013 Festival Miden, Chios / Greece
2012 The Video Community - Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow / Poland
2012 Proyector Videoart Festival #5, Madrid / Spain
2012 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish
2012 Simultan Festival #8, ‘The beginning of the end’, Timisoara / Romania
2012 Cronosfera Festival #3, Cavatore / Alessandria
2012 Ionian International Digital Film Festival, Levkas / Greece
2012 Kalamata Street Festival #6, Kalamata / Greece
2012 Metronome - National Centre for Conteporary Arts (NCCA), Novosibirsk / Russia
2012 Festival Oodaaq d’images poetiques, Rennes / France
2012 Intercept 1:7 - Multiplexer Gallery, Las Vegas / USA
2012 Generation Loss Festival, Manila / Philippines
2012 CeC - Carnival of a-Creativity, Sattal / India
2011 ExTeresa Arte Actual Mexico City, Mexio
2011 DokumentART European Documentary Film Festival, Neubrandenburg / Germany and Szczecin / Poland
2011 FIVA media festival, Adrogue / Argentina
2011 Baltic Sea #5 - Waterpieces Contemporary & Video Art Festival Riga, Riga / Latvian
2011 BuSho – Budapest International Videoart Festival, Budapest / Hungary
2011 Shams – the Sunflower Beirut 31 August, Lebanon / Beirut
2011 Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna / Bulgaria
2011 Chamber Light - Flash Box Gallery, Novosibirsk / Russia
2011 Space #2 - Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk / Russia
2011 Vidiot #5 - Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) / the Museum «Moscow House of a photo», Moscow / Russia