CV

Education

31 October 2018         PhD, Research as Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
01 November 2007     MA, Screen Documentary, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
16 June 1995               BA, Film & Video Production, University of the Arts London, UK

Current activities

June 2020 – Nov 2021       Resident Artist, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme
2021 – 2024                         Postdoctoral Researcher, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
2021 – 2024                         Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Publications

“A HEART THAT COULD BEAT RIGHT ACROSS THE WORLD: On Discomfort and Empathy in Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza”, in Women, Spectatorship and the Cinema of the Real, MAI Journal special issue (forthcoming 2022)
“NOT ANOTHER MOMENT OF YOUR SALVATION: Documentary, Art Practice and their Empathic Misadventures” in Constructions of the Real, Baulch, L.; Burke, L.; Gough-Brady, C.; Munro, K.; Rogers, C., Bristol: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2022)
“Village of Women, Tamara Stepanyan and Minou Norouzi in conversation”, Moving People and Images Journal (2022)
“Relearning Forgotten Practices of Communication: On Empathy and Sky Hopinka”, Non-Fiction journal, Issue 2 (2020), pp. 36-41.
“Touch”, e-flux journal (2020)
“On Ferry Crossings” in In Between, eds. Savallampi, M; Mehta, A., HIAP (2020), pp.64-75.
“THE COMMUNICATIVE POWER OF SILENCE: Why Are You Angry?”, Another Gaze 03 (2019), pp. 61-66
Object Documentary: The Ethics of the Documentary Encounter Reframed, Goldsmiths, University of London (2018) [Doctoral thesis]
“Mecazi mekân” (with Pınar Öğrenci) in Art Unlimited (2018), pp. 40-42
“Neither Here Nor There: Investigating Instances of Showing” in Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited, eds. Daniels, J., Mclaughlin, C., Pearce, G., Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013), pp. 130-143
“The Value of Disorientation” in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists (2013), pp. 40-41
“Imago” in Photocinema: The Creative Edges of Photography and Film, eds. Campbell, N., Cramerotti, A., Intellect Books (2013), pp. 146-147
“Imago” in Dwelling Places: Taiwan International Video Art, Chew’s Culture Foundation (2008), p. 91

Curatorial projects 2011 – 2021 (UK, Austria, USA, Turkey, Finland)

“Little Stories and Narrative Threads: Countering the Heroic telling of Architectural History”, screening of Austrian artist-filmmaker Sasha Pirker’s work presented for the first time in Finland + discussion, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme. Supported by Kone Foundation and Austrian Embassy Helsinki, Finland 2021

“ THE DIASPORA IS A HOUSE TOO : Pınar Öğrenci with Minou Norouzi”, work-in-progress screening of Öğrenci’s documentary titled Gurbet Is a Home + discussion tied in with Norouzi’s research on the themes of architecture and migration, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, Finland 2020
“ Filmprogramm IV”, UNDOX International Festival of Innovative Documentary Art, Belvedere Museum, Austria 2019
“The Revolution is not a Virgin”, public programme incl. films & performance, UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art, USA 2019
“Metaphorical Space” with Pınar Öğrenci, exhibition & film programme, MARSistanbul and SALT Beyoğlu, Turkey 2018
“Object! On the Documentary as Art” symposium, screening series, artists’ talks, Whitechapel Gallery and Close Up Film Centre, UK 2017
“Willing the Possible” exhibition, MARSistanbul, Turkey 2017
“Object Documentary” exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (9-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2016
“Kiss me, gentlemen – In Pursuit of Realness” screening, UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art, USA 2015
“Sheffield Fringe 2014” exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (9-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2014
“Evidentiary Dilemmas”, film programme for Death of a Cameraman exhibition (Curator: Martin Waldmeier) apexart, USA 2013
“Sheffield Fringe 2013” exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (3-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2013
“Sheffield Fringe 2012”, 3-day programme of events, S1 Artspace, UK 2012
“Mainstream 2.1”, public programme incl. films & performance, Angus-Hughes Gallery, UK 2011
“Wild Thinking” screening, Apt 301, UK 2011

Film projects 2006 – 2021

On the Tenderness of Men (essay film, in development)
La Familia (essay film, in development)
Everything (artists’ documentary 22:36, 2018)
I Remember (single-channel video 06:00, 2010)
All Shades of Grey (artists’ documentary 06:00, 2009)
Anatomy of Failure (artists’ documentary 53:00, 2008)
u never asked to be my mountain (single-channel video 01:30, 2008)
Sitting is Believing (single-channel video 06:50, 2007)
Limb from Limb (single-channel video 08:00, 2007)
Sich selbst vis-à-vis (Once self vis-à-vis) (two-channel video 04:14, 2006)
Imago (single-channel video 07:50, 2006)

Selected screenings and exhibitions 2006 – 2018

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2018)
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento Buenos Aires (BIM), Argentina (2014)
“untitled male ID”, Angus-Hughes Gallery London UK (2013)
“Truth, Dare or Promise” South London Gallery UK (2012)
“Nothing to Declare” Yuchengco Museum Manila, Philippines (2012)
XXVII Sarajevo Winter, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011)
“ResoVision” Frieze Art Fair, London UK (2010)
“All Shades of Grey” in Unreal Asia, 55^th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2009)
“All Shades of Grey” 26^th Kasseler Dokfest, Germany (2009)
“Anatomy of Failure” XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje Bulgaria (2009)
“PhotoCinema” QUAD Gallery, curator: Louis Clements, Derby UK (2009)
“Dwelling Places” Hong-Gah Museum, curator: Sean C.S. Hu, Taipei City Taiwan (2008)
“Hollywould: Artists’ Replies to Hollywood” Los Angeles Filmforum USA (2008)
“Fresh Air Machine” Calvert 22 London UK (2008)
“Video Killed the Painting Star” Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow UK (2007)
“The Impossibility of the Beach” Telic Arts Exchange Los Angeles USA (2006)

Awards

2006    Best Experimental Film award, Tirana International Film Festival
2002    Performers Rights Society award for Sound Design of the broadcast documentary “Home Truths”
2002    Corporation of London, London Connexion, Awards for All, film production funding for “Home Truths

Work experience

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020        Postdoctoral Researcher in the Arts, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki
Jan 2011 – Aug 2019        Creative Director, Producer, Film Programmer at Sheffield Fringe [Film festival]
Sept 2004 – Aug 2012       Lecturer (part-time) at University of West London, South Bank University, Goldsmiths, University of London

Research funding and grants

2021 – 2024     Kone Foundation, “Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives On Doing Politics With the Documentary” (postdoctoral research)
2014 – 2018                Arts Council England, “Sheffield Fringe” (Grants for the Arts)
2012 – 2015                Arts & Humanities Research Council, “Object Documentary: The Ethics of the Documentary Encounter Reframed” (doctoral research)
2005 – 2006                Arts & Humanities Research Council (Postgraduate award)

Presentations/ talks

2011-2021 Invited talks (UK, Finland, USA, Sweden)

Aalto University (Fin), Art School MAA (Fin), Screen Studies conference (UK); Jane and Aatos Erkko conference (Fin); Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (Fin); Critical Cinema Lab (Fin); Documentary Now! (UK); Exhibiting Video conference (UK); College Art Association 107th Annual Conference (USA); TED conference (USA); Visible Evidence XX conference (Sweden)