FILMOGRAPHY
Slipping
2022
Director: Roshanak Jaberi, Karen Kaeja
Producer: Jaberi Dance Theatre
DOP: Olya Glotka
Slipping, a new dance film, is an intimate journey of four women's lives, as they slip between emotional and psychological torment. The characters coexist through their unfolding stories in a century old mansion. Their only link to reality is each other.
This is What The
World Looks Like
2022
Director, Writer: Steen Starr
Editor: Olya Glotka
This Is What The World Looks Like is a short poetic film on family, religion, loss, love and grief.
Borderline
2022
Director: Caylie Staples
DOP: Olya Glotka
Music video. There’s something of a deeply spiritual and out-of-body feel to the song itself with its unique soundscapes paired with Staples’ meditative vocal delivery, and the video enhances all of this to create a vivid sensory experience.
Pulse
2022
Director: Allen Kaeja
Producer: Natasha Lan
DOP: Olya Glotka
Dance Film. Created for the city of Mississauga and produced by Natasha Lan, this curatorial intervention considers what it feels like to not belong.
Migration stories cannot be categorized or reduced. Stories are lived experience - invisible armour. Stories move - they are our agency, the vehicle that propel us. Pulse contends with the disclosure of concealed and systemic forms of oppression - from micro aggressions to policy for appearance-sake.
Women
Cinematographers
2019
Director: Joan Hutton
Cinematographer / DP: Olya Glotka
A series of interviews featuring members of Canadian Society of Cinematographers. Asking women cinematographers about their path, their struggles and their successes.
SNEAK PAST
THE MIRROR
2019
Director / DOP: Olya Glotka
A music video for Jennis "Sneak Past the Mirror"
XTOD:
MOMENTS
IN REEL TIME
2017
Director: Allen Kaeja
DOP: Hernan Morris
Cinematographer: Olya Glotka
The film takes place throughout Metropolitan Toronto highlighting 22 Xtraordinary Toronto Dance Artists improvising one-minute dances in deeply meaningful locations of their choice. The 22 creators animate secret and sacred locations in Toronto, one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world!
HAIKU
2019
Director: Olya Glotka
DP: Alysha Galbreath
A dance film connecting 10 dancers in a circle of witnessing and co-creating.
TRIBUTE / PROMISE
2018
Director: Laurence Siegel
DOP: Hernan Morris
Cinematographer: Olya Glotka
Dance film about the second immigration wave to Canada, arriving through Pier 21.
National Kids
Cancer Ride
2017
Director / Cinematographer: Olya Glotka
A documentary series following the team of National Kids Cancer Ride cycling across Canada to raise awareness and funds to cure childhood cancer.
SNOWDANCE SHORT
FILM
FEST
2016
BEST SOUND
Snowdance Short Film Fest by Trent Film Society. Best sound for "Letters to Friends"
CONTACT
DANCE
INTERNATIONAL
FILM
FESTIVAL
2017
GOLD AWARD
First place for "Every Body Can Dance"
R.E.D.
INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
2019
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Official selection for "Flesh and Stone"