Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work moves deftly between intimate storytelling and incisive political critique. Her films weave together personal experience and collective memory while engaging with the realities of contemporary Russia—a landscape where personal freedom and artistic expression are under mounting pressure. Within this tension, they navigate feelings of confinement, displacement, and resilience.
Marusya Syroechkovskaya rigorous documentary methodology with a striking visual language. Her early work, the student short Exploration of Confinement (2013), set the tone for her ambitious engagement with social and psychological spaces.
Her debut feature documentary, How to Save a Dead Friend (2022) exemplifies her capacity to blend formal rigor with poetic sensibility: everyday gestures, intimate conversations, and stark realities are woven into a cinematic tapestry that is both tender and politically resonant. The film has been celebrated at over 35 international festivals, including Cannes, DOC NYC, and earned a nomination for the European Film Awards.
Across her work, Marusya Syroechkovskaya interrogates the boundaries between personal and collective narratives, the visible and the invisible, memory and immediacy. Her films operate as both document and reflection, bearing witness to the fragility and persistence of human experience while creating immersive visual worlds that linger long after the credits roll.