Viktoria Paranyuk is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Screen Studies at Pace University and a video essayist based in New York City. Her research interests include cinema’s engagement with history and with the politics of gender; environmental approaches to moving images; and the audiovisual essay as an embodied and sensory form of scholarship. Her forthcoming first book Cinema of Sincerity: Soviet Films and Culture during the Thaw treats sincerity as an aesthetic and a vernacular reworking of a trend in global cinema that sought to bridge the gap between reality and the filmed image. She is currently working on a project that explores the idea of interiority in cinemas under state socialism. Viktoria’s research has been published in edited collections, such ReFocus: The Films of Larisa Shepitko Slavic Review, and in Slavic Review, Film History, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, and Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays.
