Iona Pelovska

Bulgaria / CanadaEvents & Talks

Biography

Iona Pelovska is a dream technician (colloquially known as artist/filmmaker) interested in the human capacity to assemble realities. With roots in visual art, degrees in Film Production, and a doctorate in thinking too much (formally: Communication & Culture), she works across disciplines to trace the outlines of future cinemas, intent to open new portals of perception. Her films, installations, and paper-trails - funded by some, decoded by few - have circled festivals, academic sanctums, and art spaces across continents. When not conjuring light-time apparitions, she asks unlikely questions about the techno-human condition. She believes language can break things - and that’s precisely why it matters.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Trans:plant, 2025, Lecture

Events & Talks

Trans:plant is a cinematic talk on (dis)placement - of organs, identities, meaning. Departing from the experimental short hArt, it drifts across myth, surgery, migration, wondering is the heart a pump or a portal. What does it mean to belong, when the heart can be grafted into a body that itself can be grafted into a place; when identity migrates through timezones and syntax? Can form be home or is home trans-form?Drawing from ancient Egypt and personal exile, Trans:plant explores the uncanny kinship between transplantation and transformation, asking whether belonging begins where boundaries end.