Vadim Dumesh

Vadim Dumesh is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and journalist, with an academic background in economics, film, arts and public affairs (at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, Sciences Po Paris and Le Fresnoy).
Originally from Latvia, in his works Vadim explores questions of mobility, circulation, belonging, and human condition in larger economic and political structures. Vadim’s work is based on cohabitation and collaborative and collective work, and ranges from plastic and narrative experimentation in video installations and documentary cinema.
He cultivates a transdisciplinary approach and is currently investigating the potential of co-creation practices, which he is developing in his doctoral thesis in artistic research and practice “Situated Gaze: Documentary authorship and collective creativity in the digital age” co-directed by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, and the Université du Québec à Montréal (scientific supervisor Viva Paci, artistic supervisor Sharon Lockhart).
Vadim is currently a member of labdoc (Le laboratoire de recherche sur les pratiques audiovisuelles documentaires de l’UQAM) and a member of the Raconter-Cartographier transmedia scriptwriting research group.
His films screened in such festivals as CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, Cinéma du Réel, Jerusalem IFF, among other international festivals. LA BASE, Vadim’s first feature film, is theatrically released in France in april 2024.