GLISH is an art association founded by Timofey Glinin and Anastasia Shubina, visual artists, working together from 2018. Currently based in San Francisco.
Anastasia Shubina is a multidisciplinary artist from St. Petersburg. She works with documentary and conceptual photography, film and video art. He has a philosophical education, as well as education in the field of cinema and photography. Her work has been presented at solo and group exhibitions, as well as at a number of film festivals in Europe, Asia, America and Australia. Finalist and winner of competitions. In her personal projects, she explores the themes of mythology, anthropology, and historical trauma.
Timofey Glinin is an artist and film director from St. Petersburg. He studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and attended courses at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema, worked as a scientist, entrepreneur, and writer. His work has been presented at a number of international film festivals and exhibitions in Europe, Asia, the USA and Australia. In his projects, he explores the themes of futurism, transhumanism and modern science.
Personal exhibitions
2022: “Amanita Muscaria”, personal exhibition during Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia
2022: “Amanita Muscaria”, personal exhibition, Art Kvartal Photo Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2021: “The Second sun”, Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin personal exhibition, Zerno Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2023: “Myth about Myth” exhibition, Art-Standard gallery, Moscow.
2023: Exhibition of The Bar-Tur Photo Award winners, F³ — Space for Photography (F³ — Freiraum für Fotografie), Berlin, Germany.
2022: Portfolio 2022, F-Stop magazine online exhibition.
2022: Pictures of the Year Asia (POY Asia) exhibition, Mindful Art Forum (MAF), Seoul, South Korea.
2022: “Pineapple juice”, Saratov, Russia. Group exhibition, August 2022.
2022: Portrait 2022, F-Stop magazine online exhibition.
2022: “Thirteen”, The “Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art” (NPAK), Yerevan, Armenia
2022: “Where you are”, Nikolsky rows, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022: “Festival pinhole peru”, Peru
2022: “New vision of Saint Petersburg”, Mariinsky palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
Awards & Screenings
Photography:
2023 — Pictures of the Year Asia (POY Asia) 2023, Portrait Series, 1st place.
2022 — Bartur Photo Award, Faces of Humanity Student Award, 3d place.
2022 — Bartur Photo Award, Ann Lesley Bartur Student Award, Highly Commended Winner.
2022 — Pictures of the Year Asia (POY Asia) 2022, Project “Deportation”, Issue Reporting Picture Story, Finalist.
2022 — Lenscratch Student Prize, 25 to watch.
2022 — Theater award “Golden Mask”: “Forest. Mushrooms” performance, part of theater project “Forest” is in the long-list.
2021 — Street Photo Russia, Top-100 photographers, included in photobook.
2021 — International Women In Photo Association Award 2021/2022, short-list.
Films
“Piblokto”:
Cinema du Réel — 45th International Festival of Documentaries, Paris, France, 2023, World premiere, Prix des détenues
Sheffield DocFest — Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Official selection 2023, Sheffield, UK, UK premiere.
Screening at Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, 28 May 2023.
Beat Film Festival, international documentary festival, National competition 2023, Moscow, Russia, Russian Premiere.
“Dislocations”:
KinoDrome: International Motion Picture & Screenplay Festival, United States,
2021,
Winner
Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Mexico, 2022, Official Selection
Balkan Can Kino, Greece, 2022, Official Selection
Esto Es Para Esto, Mexico, 2022, Official Selection
Experimental Films Online, Mexico, 2022, Official Selection
Symbol of Knowledge Arts And International Film Festival, India, 2022,
Official Selection
One Shot International Short Film Festival, Armenia, 2022,
Official Selection “Moving Forward”
NIZINA self-publishing and multimedia festival, Russia, 2022, Official Selection
Accordi @ DISACCORDI — International Short Film Festiva, Italy, 2021,
Official Selection
Interface Video Art Festival, Croatia, 2021, Official Selection
18 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Argentina (Tigre, Quilmes and Medellin), 2021, Official Selection
17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece,
2021,
Official Selection
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Japan (Tokyo), 2021, Official Selection
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, United States, 2021, Official Selection
Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México Festival Internacional de Cine Silente, México, 2021, Official Selection
Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2021, Official Selection
Experimental Superstars, Serbia, 2021, Official Selection
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Japan (Kyoto), 2021, Official Selection
Guttercast Film Festival, United States, 2021, Official Selection
Lift-Off Online Sessions, United Kingdom, 2021, Official Selection
First-Time Filmmaker Online Sessions, United Kingdom, Official Selection
Noble International Film Festival And Awards, India, 2021, Official Selection
Sessions By Lift-Off Global Network, United Kingdom, 2021, Official Selection
“The Art of Falling Apart”:
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Republic of Korea, 2019, World Premiere
Publications
2023: Nomadic Future, A visual dialog, See-zeen magazine.
2023: Сложить всю жизнь в один чемодан”. Чем релоканты из России занимаются в Армении (“Put your whole life in one suitcase.” What relocants from Russia do in Armenia), RTVI.
2023: Остальную Россию здесь называют “материком”. Чукчи и эскимосы на берегу океана (The rest of Russia is called “mainland” here. Chukchi and Eskimos on the shore of Arctic ocean), Sibir Realii.
2023: Life on the Chukchi Sea coast A film shot in Chukotka offers a glimpse of one of Russia’s Arctic Indigenous cultures, Meduza.
2023: Amanita Muscaria, See-zeen magazine.
2022: Amanita Muscaria, F-Stop magazine.
2022: Relocation. Armenia (“Anti-war protests, environmental clean-ups and cuddle parties. How Russian emigrants live in Yerevan”) Republic.
2022: Deportation (“Самое страшное, оказывается, ждало нас впереди” / “The worst, it turns out, was waiting for us ahead”). Republic. (Anastasia Shubina)
2022: Deportation of the Karachays, Vlesah.
2022: Deportation (“Бабушка в дороге умерла, и ее выкинули“/ “Grandmother died on the road and was thrown out”). Lenta.ru. (Anastasia Shubina)
2022: Deportation, Private. (Anastasia Shubina)
2021: Deportation (“Не додумались, что отправят, а потом голодовали” / “We didn’t think that we would be expelled and then we starved”). Такие дела / takiedela.ru (Anastasia Shubina)
Interviews
2023: Entretien avec Anastasia Shubina et Timofey Glinin, réalisateurs de Piblokto. Mediapart.
2022: Interview with photographers Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin, F-Stop magazine.
Performances
2022: “Ecology of consciousness”, Grand Hotel Emerald, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021-2022: “Forest.Mushrooms”, Etude Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia (Timofey Glinin, Anastasia Shubina, Alexandr Mashanov, Alyona Mitropova)
2021: “Ecology of consciousness”, New stage of the Alexandrinsky theater, St. Petersburg, Russia (Timofey Glinin, Anastasia Shubina, Alexandr Mashanov, Alyona Mitropova)
2021: “Ecology of consciousnes”, “The World of Knowledge Film Festival”, closing ceremony, St. Petersburg, Russia (Timofey Glinin, Anastasia Shubina, Alexandr Mashanov, Alyona Mitropova)
2021: “Ecology of consciousness”, “Lived and worked” Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (Timofey Glinin, Anastasia Shubina, Alexandr Mashanov, Alyona Mitropova)
Films
2024: “Haqiqa” (Directors: Shubina, Glinin / 60 min / Documentary), work in progress
2023: “Piblokto” (Directors, Cinematographers: Shubina, Glinn / 40 min / Documentary, experimental)
2021: “Dislocations” (Directors: Shubina, Glinn / 7 min / Experimental)
2019: “The Art of Falling Apart” (Directors: Shubina, Glinin / 60 min / Documentary)
Education and experience
Anastasia Shubina
2020 — Present: Freelance photographer
2020 — 2023: Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography
2017 — Present: Film director and producer at Rhizomefilms
2017: St. Petersburg School of New Cinema (extern)
2013 — 2015: Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy
2008 — 2014: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology
Timofey Glinin
2017
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Present:
Film director and producer at Rhizomefilms
2017: St. Petersburg School of New Cinema (extern)
2018
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Present:
scientific director in Open longevity (USA)
2018: PhD in biology
2016 — Present: CEO in Neurotechnology LTD.
2008 — 2014: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology