Mgr. art. Barbora Nemčeková

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Barbora Nemčeková graduated from the Department of Audiovisual Studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Her master’s thesis focused on theories of the male gaze. She has worked as editor-in-chief of the online film magazine Kinečko, headed the film section of the cultural monthly Kapitál, and served as an editor of Film.sk, published by the Slovak Film Institute. In 2024, she was a member of the founding committee of Kultúrne odbory, a trade union organisation for cultural workers. Her work spans dramaturgy, film journalism and criticism, as well as essays addressing the gendered dimensions of everyday life and labour, and the neoliberal appropriation of feminism. Her writing has appeared in the film studies journal Kino-Ikon, the feminist online magazine Druhá směna, Pontón, and the archive of Kapitál. She is a dramaturge at the independent cinema Kino inak A4 and works in the cultural sector. She enjoys feeding pigeons, collecting books, reading poetry, and analysing everything, films included. Her doctoral research examines care and its representation in visual archives.