Biography: Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina is a Russian-American award-winning filmmaker, film educator, visual artist, and essayist. They are known for three short films — “New Flesh for the Old Ceremony”, (NewFest, 2021), a macabre fairy-tale about devouring love, “No Refunds”, a docufiction on performative nature at the heart of filmmaking and sex work, and “Tomorrow Was War”, a surreal expedition into the paranoid Russian police state. They are currently based in Berlin.