[education]
[2015-2017] MFA [with Distinction]. Oxford University
[2017-2020] PhD in Fine Art [full scholarship / straight pass], Kingston University
[solo exhibitions & screenings]
[2024] Bozar Films, Brussels
[2023] MoMA, Modern Mondays, New York
[2023] National Gallery of Art, DC [link]
[2023] LUX, London [link]
[2023] Nadežda Petrović Gallery, Čačak
[2023] Courtisane Festival , Ghent [link]
[2023] Filmoteca de Catalunya, la Inesperada, Barcelona
[2023] 42nd IKSV, Istanbul
[2023] Jester, Genk
[2022] performance at e-flux, New York [link]
[2022] DokuFest, Kosovo [link]
[2022] 41st Uppsala Short Film Festival [link]
[2022] CIFF - Points North Institute
[2022] e-flux Screening Room, New York [link]
[2022] Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn [link]
[2022] Open City Documentary Festival, London [link]
[2018] BEURSSCHOUWBURG, Belgium
[two-person screenings]
with Su Friedrich [link]
with Forugh Farrokhzad [link]
with Éric Baudelaire [link]
with Vivienne Dick
[selected awards & nominations]
Nominated for the Œil d’Or at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight
Nominated for Queer Palm at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight
Awarded the Gold Hugo for Best Documentary Short - 58th Chicago Int’l Festival
Awarded Ammodo Tiger Short Award - 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR
Awarded Best Experimental Short Film - 70th & 71st Melbourne International Film Festival, MIFF
Nominated for Found Footage Award at 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR
Awarded Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award - 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, AAFF
Awarded Best International Short Film - 29th l'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
Awarded Best Visual Concept - 12th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, BIEFF
Awarded the runner-up Prize for the Best UK Short Film - London Short Film Festival, LSFF
Awarded Best Short Film - 15th Archivio Aperto, Bologna
[selected group exhibitions]
[2023] Villa Medici: The French Academy in Rome
[2023] Tromsø Kunstforening
[2022] Haus der Kulturen der Welt [HKW]
[2022] LCCA, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art [Survival Kit]
[2021] Project Arts Centre, Dublin
[2021] M HKA, Antwerp
[2021] Pergamon Museum, Berlin
[2019] Anthology Film Archive, New York
[2019] VIDEONALE.17, Kunstmuseum Bonn
[2019] Parasol unit Foundation for Contemporary art, London
[selected recent screenings]
[2023] Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
[2023] New York Film Festival [NYFF 61st]
[2023] Toronto Film Festival [TIFF Wavelengths 48th] [link]
[2023] Vancouver Int’l FF [42nd VIFF]
[2023] Locarno Film Festival [link]
[2023] International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam [IDFA]
[2023] Black Canvas FCC, New Horizon Competition
[2023] FICUNAM International Festival
[2023] DMZ International Documentary Film Festival [DMZ Docs]
[2023] 50th Film Fest Ghent
[2023] Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
[2022] True/False Film Festival
[2022] MoMA Doc Fortnight New York [link]
[2022] Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival [IFFR 2016/2018/2022] [link]
[2022] RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival
[2022] 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
[2022] Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
[reviews]
by Dylan Huw [ArtForum]
by Mike Hoolboom [Found Footage Magazine – print]
by Kevin B. Lee [FilmExplorer]
by Elhum Shakerifar [LUX London]
by Mahan Moalemi [NonFiction]
by Namrata Joshi [National Herald]
by Ben Nicholson [Film Verdict]
by Flavia Dima [Films in Frame]
by Elhum Shakerifar [words sketched onto the night’s taut skin]
by José Sarmiento Hinojosa [desistfilm]
[mentions]
by Catherine Grant [Criterion Daily]
by Addie Morfoot [Variety]
by Lukas Brasiskis [Art Agenda]
by Ariel Avissar [Sight & Sound - BFI]
by Courtney Stephens [Filmmaker Magazine]
by Leo Goldsmith [Senses of Cinema]
by James Prestridge [Close Up Culture]
by Dagmara Genda [Berlin Art Link]
[fellowships / residencies]
Awarded the Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency, NY
Awarded the Sonja Savić Prize & Residency at Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade
New Contemporaries Digital Fellowship
[2022]
Frames of Representation, ICA London
24th. Seoul International Women's Film Festival
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
19th Documenta Madrid, Spain
19th VIS Vienna Shorts, Austria
19th EXIS, Seoul
ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival
Costa Rica International Film Festival, San José
38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Hamburg Short Film Festival)
Nominated for Experimental Film Award - 30th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
True/False Film Festival, Missouri
39th Kasseler Dokfest
[other awards / nominations]
Awarded The Best Short Film, Fugas Award at Documenta Madrid
Awarded The Best Short Film at Festival de Cine Lima Independiente
Commissioned by Asian Film Archive
Commissioned by FVU London
Nominated for Shorts Award at 67th, 70th, and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival program, MIFF
Awarded the City of Neubrandenburg Award at 27. dokumentART
Awarded two Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize (2017 & 2019), York
Awarded a fully-funded Ph.D. by practice, Kingston University
Special Jury Mention at Open City Documentary Festival, London
Special Jury Mention at 47. Athens International Film and Video Festival
Special Jury Mention at the IFF Message to Man
Awarded GRS Research Completion Fund, Kingston University
Awarded for the Best Short Film at Szczecin European Film Festival
Awarded for the Best Short Film at the Wales International Documentary Film Festival
Nominated in the International Competition at 22nd Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Nominated for Best UK Short Award at Open City London Documentary Festival, London
Nominated for Best European Documentary Short at 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF
Awarded Iran Heritage Foundation Grant
Awarded KSA Research Grant
Freelands Foundation Fund Grant
[selected screenings]
MoMA's Doc Fortnight
Edinburgh International Film Festival
58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck London
47th International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR 2016/2018/2022
67th Melbourne International Film Festival program
60th Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival ZINEBI
38. Uppsala International Short Film Festival
35. Busan International Short Film Festival
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
47. Athens International Film and Video Festival
30. New Orleans Film Festival
38. Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF)
23rd SEOUL International Women's Film Festival
31st Singapore International Film Festival [SGIFF]
Silico Experimental Short Film Competition, IFF Message to Man
23rd Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festi
15. ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival
17. Doclisboa Documentary Film Festival, Lisbon
17. VIDEONALE.17, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Zurich Film Festival, Zürich
London Feminist Film Festival, RIO Cinema
London Short Film Festival, ICA London 2017/2018/2019/2022
Open City Documentary Film Festival London 2018/2019
Underwire Film Festival, Hackney Picturehouse, London
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland
16. VIS Vienna Short Film Festival
22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2017/2018/2019
22nd International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
24th Geneva International Film Festival
14th Camden International Film Festival, Camden, Maine
17th DokuFest International Documentary Festival, Kosovo
22nd Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival
18th New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
Digital Anthropologies, Paris
Duke University, Rubenstein Art Center, Durham
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
UnionDocs, Centre for Documentary Art, NY
Light Industry, New York
Yale University
Artist Talks / Lectures
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Anthology Film Archives, NY
Oxford University
Brighton University
Westminster University
Open City Documentary Festival, London
Master LAV, WomenMake, Madrid
Conferences
2019 Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Brighton
2019 The 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research
2019 Symposia Iranica's Fourth Biennial Conference 2019, the University of St Andrews
2019 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences’ (IUAES) Inter-Congress
2018 EASA (The European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference
Jury duties
EMAF, Germany
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
DokuFest, Kosovo
LSFF, London
dokART
Curatorial
35th Dresden Film Festival
Light Industry New York
MUBI & NANG London
Open City Doc Festival London
[2023]
[2023] Cannes Directors’ Fortnight [link]
[2023] New York Film Festival [NYFF 61st]
[2023] Toronto Film Festival [TIFF Wavelengths 48th] [link]
[2023] Vancouver Int’l FF [42nd VIFF]
[2023] Locarno Film Festival [link]
[2023] International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam [IDFA]
[2023] Black Canvas FCC, New Horizon Competition
[2023] FICUNAM International Festival
[2023] DMZ International Documentary Film Festival [DMZ Docs]
[2023] 50th Film Fest Ghent
[2023] 26th Media City Film Festival