Minou Norouzi

Filmmaker, writer, organiser-of-things

CV

 

Education

2018       PhD, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK
2007      MA, Screen Documentary, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK

Current activities

2022 – ongoing   Editor, Journal of Visual Culture (Sage)

Work experience

2021 – 2024                        Principal Investigator, Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives on Doing Politics with the Documentary
                                               supported by Kone Foundation
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, New City College

Publications

  • 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, eds. Ebbrecht-Hartmann, T., Sandberg, C., Berghahn Books (forthcoming)
  • 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, pp 249-265 (2024)

Filmography

  • 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 (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)

Screenings and exhibitions (selected)

  • On the Tenderness of Men, Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz (2025)
  • On the Tenderness of Men, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (2025)
  • On the Tenderness of Men, in FIX: Care and Repair, Architecture and Design Museum, (April 26, 2024 – January 5, 2025)
    https://www.mfa.fi/en/exhibitions/fix-care-and-repair/
  • Everything, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2018)
  • Various works, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento Buenos Aires (BIM), Argentina (2014)
  • Sich selbst vis-à-vis / Once self vis-à-vis, in untitled male ID, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK (2013)
  • Various works, in Truth, Dare or Promise, South London Gallery, UK (2012)
  • Imago, in Nothing to Declare, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines (2012)
  • Anatomy of Failure, XXVII Sarajevo Winter, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011)
  • Various works, in 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, Kasseler Dokfest, Germany (2009)
  • Anatomy of Failure, XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje, Bulgaria (2009)
  • Imago, in PhotoCinema, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK (2009) curator: Louis Clements
  • Anatomy of Failure, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2008)
  • Imago, in Dwelling Places, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan (2008), curator: Sean C.S. Hu
  • Limb from Limb, in Hollywould: Artists’ Replies to Hollywood, Los Angeles Filmforum USA (2008)
  • Various works, in Fresh Air Machine, Calvert 2,2 Londo,n UK (2008)
  • Imago, in Video Killed the Painting Star, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK (2007)
  • Imago, in The Impossibility of the Beach, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA (2006)

Curatorial work  (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 Sasha Pirker’s work  + discussion, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) 2021
  • THE DIASPORA IS A HOUSE TOO
, screening of Öğrenci’s documentary Gurbet Is a Home, followed by a discussion on architecture and migration, HIAP 2020
  • Filmprogramm IV, in UNDOX International Festival of Innovative Documentary Art, Belvedere Museum, Austria 2019
  • The Revolution is not a Virgin, screening & performance programme, UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art, USA 2019
  • Metaphorical Space, 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, exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (9-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2014
  • Evidentiary Dilemmas, public programme for Death of a Cameraman exhibition, apexart, USA 2013, curator: Martin Waldmeier
  • Sheffield Fringe, exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (3-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2013
  • Sheffield Fringe, 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 event, Apt 301, UK 2011

Research funding and grants

2021 – 2024                Kone Foundation, Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives On Doing Politics With the Documentary
2014 & 2016                Arts Council England, Sheffield Fringe (Grants for the Arts)
2012 – 2015                Arts & Humanities Research Council, Object Documentary: The Ethics of the Documentary Encounter Reframed
2006 – 2007                Arts & Humanities Research Council (Postgraduate award)

Invited talks / major conference presentations (selected)

Visible Evidence 2014/2022/2025, Screen Studies conference 2021, College Art Association 2019, TED 2011

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