Inna Ivanovskaya (b. 1992, Moscow, Russia) is an independent documentary filmmaker and photographer based in the Hudson Valley, NY. Her work explores themes of homeland, belonging, personal transformation, and identity through her lived experience as an immigrant and a woman. Ivanovskaya’s practice is driven by neglected personal experiences, embodied trauma, and the complexities of immigrant life.
Her documentary films emerge from long-term relationships with others, while her self-portrait photographic practice turns an empathetic gaze inward, using her body as an archive that holds somatic and emotional knowledge. These often-overlooked experiences live in the body and quietly shape who we are.
Ivanovskaya holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film Production from CUNY Brooklyn College and completed an analog photography program at SUNY New Paltz. Her work has screened and been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Cinema Zero, DC Independent Film Forum, IMPACTE! Human Rights Film Festival of Catalonia, Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.