Kristina Tarasova

Assistant curator, acquisitions

Kristina Tarasova

Kristina is an assistant curator, acquisitions at the BFI National Archive. She joined the BFI as a video conservation specialist in 2015, working with early British television and helping to preserve endangered legacy videotape formats. Joining the curatorial team in 2018, she works across all areas of the moving image collection including film, video and digital, dealing with offers to the archive, curatorial projects, conservation planning and collections data.

She has an MA in Archives and Records Management from UCL and also studied film and television at the University of Warwick. Her areas of interest include documentary films, the film essay and remix culture. She edits the website Reeling the Real. As well as archiving films, she also occasionally makes them.