Artists at Risk (AR)

Tatiana’s residency is funded by the City of Helsinki, the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency, the Ministry of Education and Culture and OMCT.

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You can read more about Tatiana’s work here: artistsatrisk.org/20...
Drinks and snacks will be provided.
We warmly welcome you and look forward to seeing you at Rosebud Postitalo!
Warm thanks to Rosebud and Voima for hosting the event.

Tatiana Chistova is a Russian director, editor, and scriptwriter currently based in Helsinki through the AR-Safe Haven programme with the support of World Organization against Torture (OMCT.) Her work explores memory, conscience, resistance, and human experience in times of conflict.

The programme includes screenings followed by a discussion with the audience.

Reflecting on experiences under occupation, past and present. (2012) artdoc.media/en/movi...
– Khamidu. Here and There (work in progress) Revealing geopolitical and historical insights by spending a few days seeing the world through the eyes of a plumber during wartime.

– Convictions Portraying young men refusing Russian conscription (2016) www.bezrindas.lv/ru/...
– Bless You Exploring life during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) dafilms.com/film/131...
– Frau, Frau, Where is the Road to Pillau?

Join us for a discussion on the current situation in Russia, moderated by Iida Simes, Voima magazine, featuring film excerpts and works in progress by Tatiana Chistova.
Screenings include excerpts from:

Artists at Risk (AR) warmly invites you to an artist talk and film screening with a documentary film director, AR-Safe Haven Helsinki resident, Tatiana Chistova from St.Petersburg.
🗓 Tuesday, 10 March
🕔 5:00–6:30 PM
📍 Rosebud Bookshop Postitalo (Mannerheimintie 2)

Helsinki residents.

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​​We wish Tatiana Chistova a productive and inspiring stay in Helsinki and warmly thank the , the City of Helsinki, the World Organization against Torture (OMTC), Finnish Arts and Culture Agency (Kuvi), and the Ministry of Education and Culture for their continued support of AR-Safe Haven

While studying, she worked as an assistant director at Lenfilm Studio and as 1st AD with Alexey Balabanov (Blind Man’s Bluff) and Alexander Sokurov (Faust).
She later studied at the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors in Moscow.

Tatiana Chistova has graduated from Saint Petersburg State University with a Master’s degree in Philology and a specialization in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

Chistova’s work is closely connected to her civic stance. She was detained twice by Russian police after February 24, 2022, during anti-war street protests.

She is currently developing three projects: Khamidu Here and There, following a Malian man’s life in Russia and Mali, Convictions 2, on conscripts seeking alternative civilian service, and Deserters, the story of three orphaned brothers facing military obligations.

Her films explore memory, conscience, resistance, and human experience in times of conflict.

For five years, she collaborated independently with the State Museum of the History of the Gulag, producing over 100 interviews with victims of political repression; the museum closed in November 2024.

Her documentaries have been screened internationally and won awards. She has also worked with Finnish production company Oktober OY and Lithuanian production company Uljana Kim Studio.

Introducing Tatiana Chistova
Russian filmmaker, scriptwriter, editor, and Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki

Tatiana Chistova has directed a feature television film which is a Ukrainian–Russian co-production, and worked on six full-length documentaries as director, screenwriter, and editor.

#ArtistsatRisk #Perpetuum #Helsinki #Residency #ARArtist #ArtAsResistance #ArtisticFreedom #AR #ARResidency #Perpetuummobile #RefugeeArtists #TemporaryRelocation #DocumentaryFilm #Filmmaker #SafeHaven

While studying, she worked as an assistant director at Lenfilm Studio and as 1st AD with Alexey Balabanov (Blind Man’s Bluff) and Alexander Sokurov (Faust). She later studied at the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors in Moscow.

Tatiana Chistova has graduated from Saint Petersburg State University with a Master’s degree in Philology and a specialization in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

Chistova’s work is closely connected to her civic stance. She was detained twice by Russian police after February 24, 2022, during anti-war street protests.

She is currently developing three projects: Khamidu Here and There, following a Malian man’s life in Russia and Mali, Convictions 2, on conscripts seeking alternative civilian service, and Deserters, the story of three orphaned brothers facing military obligations.

For five years, she collaborated independently with the State Museum of the History of the Gulag, producing over 100 interviews with victims of political repression; the museum closed in November 2024.
Her films explore memory, conscience, resistance, and human experience in times of conflict.

She has also worked with Finnish production company Oktober OY and Lithuanian production company Uljana Kim Studio.

Tatiana Chistova has directed a feature television film which is a Ukrainian–Russian co-production, and worked on six full-length documentaries as director, screenwriter, and editor. Her documentaries have been screened internationally and won awards.

Introducing Tatiana Chistova
Russian filmmaker, scriptwriter, editor, and Artists at Risk Resident in Helsinki hosted by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

#AR #ArtistsatRisk #ARResidents #RefugeeArtists #ARArtists #UkrainianArtists #ArtResidency #ArtisticFreedom #Perpetuum#Perpetuummobile #Ukraine #TemporaryRelocation

We thank our funders, Nordic Culture Point and the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and our partners Creative Residence MC6, Nida Art Colony, Nordic House, Retreat House, NKDale, Detali, and MASSIA for making this vital initiative possible!
More updates soon!

As part of the programme, Oles Zazulin, manager of the Ukrainian residency based in Ivano-Frankivsk Detali and DJ, will host a DJ night during the meeting, creating space for informal exchange and connection alongside the workshop sessions.