About

Minou Norouzi is a researcher and cultural practitioner with international experience in developing critical research projects supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (2012-16), Arts Council England (2014-19), and Kone Foundation in Finland (2021-24).
Her audio-visual work sits in the folds of the artists’ moving image,  documentary, and essay film traditions. Her most recent film, On the Tenderness of Men, was exhibited at the Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki (4.24-1.25). The festival version premiered at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in 2025, followed by screenings at the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, amongst other film festivals.

She is a member of the editorial collective at the Journal of Visual Culture (Sage Publishing).

Her publications include:

“Keren Cytter and the Heimatfilm: Through the Lens of Geographical and Cultural Displacement” in Travellers, Wanderers, Nomads and Visitors: Thinking German Film History from the Margins. Berghahn Books (forthcoming)
“The Empathic Resonances of Village of Women: On Cinematic Expansion through Retreat” in History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts. Palgrave Macmillan (Dec 2024)
“On Discomfort and Empathy in Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza”, in Focus Issue 11: Representing Women’s Realities, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Journal (2023)
“Not Another Moment of Your Salvation: Documentary, Art Practice, and Their Empathic Misadventures” in Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory, Intellect Books (2023)
“Confessions of a Documentary Junkie: 2022 Love & Anarchy Festival Picks“, No Niin Magazine (2022)
“Relearning Forgotten Practices of Communication in a World after Catastrophe: On Empathy and Sky Hopinka“, Non-Fiction Journal (2020)
The Communicative Power of Silence: ‘Why Are You Angry?’, Another Gaze 03 (2019)

CONTACT: minou.norouzi[at]gmail.com