Elīna Matvejeva

Elīna Matvejeva is a cinematographer, video artist and filmmaker from Riga, Latvia. Work in the experimental and narrative film field, using analogue and digital media.
She is currently studying at the master’s degree program of camera operator art at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Graduated RISEBA University of Applied Sciences audiovisual media art programme bachelor degree in 2013.
Last summer, as cinematographer she did her first full-length narrative film “Breathe under water” (in post production, dir. Ronalds Mežmačs). By her work as a camera operator, she has always been interested in moving image as an art form by itself.
Since 2016, she has been actively working as a video artist focused on “hybrid theatre”. Almost all her works in theatres and music shows have been with live camera performances on stage by herself. In collaboration with other artists she has worked on video installations for exhibitions. Also in the same year she became a member of Baltic Analog Lab, which is a community of artists and enthusiasts who practices and experiments with analogue film and photography. In recent years, she has been paying more and more attention to analogue experimental cinema and non-traditional watching experience of cinema, where cinema and montage extend beyond the screen. Most often the motif that runs through her experimental works is the uncertainty of space and existence in philosophical and physical interpretations, transformation of space and reality, personal experience as an illusion.
Areas of interest: Film, theatre, screenwriting, gender studies, comedy and satire