Marina Kazakova is a Belgium-based poet/filmmaker/journalist.
She has an MA in PR and Transmedia. In 2010 she continued her postgraduate art-based research work "How to film poetry" at Sint Lukas University Brussels. She currently works on her practice-based phd on how the unique characteristics of lyric poetry can be expressed in film.
Her literature and film works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the challenges posed both by memory and grief.
The debut film of Marina "Tishe…Piano…" was a shortlisted participant of VAF Wildcard section of Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2013.
The second short film 'To My Two Fs: France and Francoise' won the ‘BEST NARRATIVE SHORT’ Award at the 'International Film Festival behalf Savva Morozov’ in Moscow in September 2015.