Kateryna Lobodenko

Doctor in Film Studies, Kateryna Lobodenko is an associate researcher at the Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Research (IRCAV) and a lecturer at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle since 2021. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Still Images – Moving Images: The Communicable Experiences of Russian Exile in France (1920–1939)", defended in 2019 under the supervision of Kristian Feigelson, focused on the figures of Russia and exile in cinema and the cartoons of Russian émigrés. Through her research, she explores the visual and cinematic representation of exile and foreigners (migrants, immigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, etc.). She is the founder of the research group "Arts. Media. Exiles".

The Project

Title: Exile(s), War(s), and Creation(s) - Images of Resistance in Service of History

"The project "Exile(s), War(s), and Creation(s): Images of Resistance in Service of History" will be carried out by the research group Arts. Médias. Exils (AME), which consists of 4 senior researchers, 2 recent PhDs, 2 doctoral candidates, and 2 artist-researchers, and is affiliated with the Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Research (IRCAV) at Sorbonne Nouvelle. The project will examine the power of media, artistic, and cinematic images produced during historical conflicts, supporting ongoing creative works. It proposes three areas of focus to better understand and highlight artistic production as a form of knowledge and a "counter-analysis of society" (Marc Ferro):

Presentation by visual artist and videographer Parya Vatankhah of a series of personal performances and conferences, aimed at revisiting various ways of representing, through media images, amateur works, and artistic creations, repression, war, and exile in the committed works of Iranian artists.

Organization of a film retrospective of student works in partnership with Ukrainian film schools, another country currently embroiled in an armed conflict, to examine the narrative, aesthetic, technical, and production peculiarities of cinematic works during wartime.

Creation of a series of filmed interviews with artists (filmmakers, videographers, illustrators) in exile in France, to highlight their personal journeys and the specificity of their artistic work in the face of exile and war."

Institution: Sorbonne Nouvelle/IRCAV

Selection of Publications

• From Poverty to Sacrifice: Prostitution and the Trafficking of Slavic Migrant Women in Cinema, presentation at the international conference "Migration Dynamics, Sexualities, and Political Controversies", Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, November 5, 2022. Publication expected in the conference proceedings in 2025.
• The Role of Caricature and Cinema in the Construction of Collective Memory of Russian Emigration After the 1917 Revolution, Slovo, Paris, vol. 53, 2023, p. 39–48.
• Foreigners in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s–1930s: America and the Americans, Revue russe, Paris, no. 59, 2022, p. 59–73.