Tatia Skhirtladze

Tatia Skhirtladze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She works and lives in Vienna, Austria. Having a BA in Art Education in Tbilisi and Vienna and in Fine Arts in the Netherlands, Enschede, she currently teaches video art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her artistic work oscillates between visual arts and film, with a focus on site-specific as well as long-term mix media concepts. She works for different film production companies in Vienna as a camerawoman and editor for documentary films. She also develops film education modules and conducts workshops on audio-visual artistic practices. In 2014, she directed the documentary short film One Year. Her first feature documentary Glory to the Queen (2020) received the Women in Film Best Pitch Award from EWA Network and Film Center Serbia at the Fest Forward Film festival in Belgrade, Serbia.