CV
Education
31 Oct 2018 PhD, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK
01 Nov 2007 MA, Screen Documentary, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK
16 June 1995 BA, Film & Video Production, University of the Arts London / UK
Current activities
2022 – ongoing Editor, Journal of Visual Culture
2021 – 2024 Principal Investigator, Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives on Doing Politics with the Documentary (funded by Kone Foundation)
2021 – 2024 Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London
Work experience
Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Arts, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki
Jan 2011 – Aug 2019 Artistic Director and Producer, Sheffield Fringe [artists’ moving image festival]
Sept 2004 – Aug 2012 Lecturer (part-time), University of West London, South Bank University, Goldsmiths, University of London, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
Publications
- “The Empathic Resonance of Village of Women: On Cinematic Expansion through Retreat” in History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts, eds. Barahal, S., Pugliano, E., Palgrave Macmillan ISBN978-3-031-70254-9 (forthcoming)
- “Keren Cytter and the Heimatfilm: Through the Lens of Geographical and Cultural Displacement”, in Travelers, Wanderers, Nomads and Visitors: Thinking German Film History from the Margins, eds. Ebbrecht-Hartmann, T., Sandberg, C., Berghahn Books (forthcoming)
- “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, Baulch, L.; Burke, L.; Gough-Brady, C.; Munro, K.; Rogers, C., Bristol: Intellect Books (2023), pp. 258-268.
- “Confessions of a Documentary Junkie: 2022 Love & Anarchy Festival Picks”, No Niin Magazine (2022)
- “Village of Women: Tamara Stepanyan and Minou Norouzi in conversation”, Finnish Documentary Guild (Dokumenttikilta) and 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 online Reader (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
Audio-visual work 2006 – ongoing
- Love is not enough (in development)
- La Familia (in development)
- On the Tenderness of Men (2024)
- Everything ( 2013)
- I Remember (2010)
- All Shades of Grey (2009)
- Anatomy of Failure (documentary 53:00, 2008)
- u never asked to be my mountain (2008)
- Sitting is Believing (2007)
- Limb from Limb (2007)
- Sich selbst vis-à-vis (Once self vis-à-vis) (two-channel video 04:14, 2006)
- Imago (2006)
Selected screenings and exhibitions 2006 – 2024
- “On the Tenderness of Men”, FIX: Care and Repair, Design Museum, Helsinki (2024-25)
- “Everything”, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2018)
- Various works, 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, 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2009)
- “All Shades of Grey” 26th 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)
- “Anatomy of Failure”, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2008)
- “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)
Curatorial projects 2011 – 2021 (UK, Austria, USA, Turkey, Finland)
- Migrant Screen Cultures, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki 2021
- “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, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) 2021
- “ THE DIASPORA IS A HOUSE TOO : Pınar Öğrenci with Minou Norouzi”, screening of Öğrenci’s documentary titled Gurbet Is a Home followed by a discussion on architecture and migration, HIAP – HIAP 2020
- “ Filmprogramm IV”, UNDOX International Festival of Innovative Documentary Art, Belvedere Museum, Austria 2019
- “The Revolution is not a Virgin”, public programme incl. films & performances, 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
Research funding and grants
2021 – 2024 Kone Foundation, “Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives On Doing Politics With the Documentary”
2014 – 2019 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 (selected – 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)
Residencies
March 2022 Purple Tree Bangkok
June 2020 – Nov 2021 HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme
Awards and peer recognition
2011 TED Fellowship
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