They work with hybrid forms of film, performance, installation and text and develop projects with documentary, site-specific and collaborative approach, bringing together personal perspectives and heterogeneous voices in a polyphonic manner.

Theo's practice has been influenced by the local AIDS crisis and state violence in their native Russia, and later migration and war, and their hybrid identity as a queer migrant of mixed minority, Jewish and Tatar/Muslim, background. It works with experimental documentary forms, polyphonic storytelling, and the erotic moving body as affective media of care, delegated mourning, engaged witnessing, and cultural memory from the position of being a lover, caregiver, and survivor.

Their artistic practice explores grief, gender-based violence, diasporic, queer and trans experiences, image-making as care and resistance to loss, and DIY community-based rituals. With focus on affective politics and ethics of visual representation, they delve into social movements, self-organised communities and forms of togetherness, utopias under post-socialist condition, and grotesque, celebration and glamour as protest in marginalised communities.

Theo studied Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts, visual art and philosophy at Bard College Berlin, film at the Russian national film school VGIK, and received training in dance, performance and physical theatre. Their projects have been exhibited and screened internationally at community spaces and established institutions alike.

They regularly work in political documentary film and have background in social work with refugees, migrants and survivors of gender-based violence.