Ivan Kozlenko

film scholar

A film scholar, curator, culture manager, founder of the esteemed Mute Nights silent film festival in Odesa and director general of Ukraine’s national film archive, the Dovzhenko Center (2014-2020). Over a decade, he oversaw the restoration of over seventy Ukrainian films and their reintroduction to global audiences. Ivan curated significant film retrospectives, including In Transition: Ukrainische Träume (Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Germany, 2023), Kira Muratova (Seoul Cinematheque, South Korea, 2019), Odessa in fiamme: occupation / liberation (Odesa IFF, 2015), Ukraine: The Great Experiment (Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Italy, 2013). He edited texts and catalogs on Ukrainian cinema, published by Dovzhenko Center Publishing: Flights in Dreams and Reality (2020), Ivan Kavaleridze. Memoirs, Drama, Journalism (2017), Ukrainian Film Posters of the 1920s: VUFKU (2015), Dovzhenko’s EARTH Framed by Borys Kosarev (2013), Ukrainian Re-vision. The Film Collection Book (2012). His 2017 novel Tangier was a contender for the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year.