How I was a Designer: Vladimir Paperny in Conversation with Sasha Razor

Sasha Razor is a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2020 with a dissertation on screenwriting and leftist cultural movements in Soviet cinema of the 1920s. Her research spans archival praxis, media archaeology, and migration studies, with a focus on Russian, Soviet, and East European film histories. She is the founding director of the Russophone Los Angeles Research Collective and is currently co-editing two volumes on Belarusian visual culture and cinema. In addition to her academic work, Razor writes cultural journalism for the Los Angeles Review of Books and contributes to public scholarship through curatorial projects and civic initiatives.