About

Minou Norouzi is an artist-filmmaker and writer, fond of elliptical paths – conceptually, ethically, but also geographically. She moves between London, Helsinki and Athens, maintaining close ties to artistic and scholarly communities. Her films trace micro-histories, architectural spaces and emotional landscapes, paying attention to the quiet and the unsaid. Elliptical shapes as metaphor and narrative method also characterise her films, guided by the cycles of departure and return innate to diasporic life. Aesthetically, her work sits somewhere between the folds of the artists’ moving image, experimental documentary and essay film traditions.

Her most recent film, On the Tenderness of Men, was exhibited at the Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki before screening at international film festivals and on broadcast. The film is distributed by AV-arkki, Centre for Finnish Media Art and the Documentary Club Thailand. She has led international research and curatorial projects supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts Council England in the UK, and the Kone Foundation in Finland. She is a member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Visual Culture and has written on film for academic presses and also dabbles in film criticism.

Minou co-founded and was responsible for the programming direction and production of the artists’ moving image festival Sheffield Fringe (2011–19). She is committed to dialogue and reflection, to mindful consumption, and to challenging exclusions imaginatively. She thrives on conversation, loves cooking and gathering around food.

CONTACT: minou.norouzi[at]gmail.com