Irina Petrova
Denmark
Born in Russia and based in Aarhus, Denmark, Irina Petrova is a documentary filmmaker and researcher.
She holds an MA in Visual Culture from HSE University (Moscow) and has completed several courses in documentary filmmaking and photography.
She uses filmmaking as a research tool to investigate anthropological and post-anthropological issues.
Her documentary No Need to Fight (2019), portraying the life of a woman living with ALS, was presented at the Days of Ethnographic Cinema International Festival in Moscow.
Expanding beyond human-centred narratives, she collaborated as a videographer with the PostHumanStudies Lab on a project exploring the Soviet-era “plant internet”, which was featured at the Ars Electronica exhibition (2022) and received a Special Jury Mention.
She is currently focused on archival filmmaking and video essay practices as tools for researching historical and cultural processes.
