Macha Ovtchinnikova is a French filmmaker and researcher of Russian origin. With a PhD in cinematic studies, she writes about cinema and contemporary art and teaches the practice and aesthetics of cinema and video art at university level. Her works include Les Variations (2014), a feature-length fiction film, Défaite et victoire du corps (2018), a documentary, and Stigmates de la terre [The scar of the earth] (2020). She is currently working on her next documentary work, Chroniques d'une décennie [Chronicles of a decade], produced by Les Docs du Nord.