Curriculum Vitae
Film, Video, Text, and New Media Education
LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
MA in Documentary Studies 2015
BFA in Film and Animation 2008LEBANESE ACADEMY OF FINE, UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND
Grants and Fellowships
2024 The Han Nefkens Foundation—Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Grant
2024 The Eliza Moore Fellowship for artistic excellence. Oak Spring Garden Foundation
2023 Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Materializing Wasterlands
2022 Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely – The Ecumenical Prize – 68th
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2022 This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own – Jury Award – 7th Festival International
Signes de Nuit
2020 Lebanon Solidarity Fund. Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy
2020 Make Yourself at Home. Kaaysá Art Residency and Temporary Art Platform
2020 Screenwriting Residency. Middle East Media Initiative & University of Southern California
2020 FLC Solidarity Fund. Fondation Liban Cinema
2018 Doha Film Institute. Experimental and Essay Film Grant
2018 Art Dubai Writers’ Fellowship with the support of Julius Bär Group
2017 Backstory Residency & Co-Production Fund. Goethe Institut & Beirut Art Residency
2017 Cinema Development Fund. Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
2016 Video Works Grant. Ashkal Alwan and Robert A. Matta Foundation
2015 Caspian Arts Scholarship. Caspian Arts Foundation
Screenings and Exhibitions
2025 A Comet in Your Eyes, Sursock Museum, Lebanon
2025 Grieving Tomorrows: Deep into the Ground, Our Roots, Glasgow Shorts, Scotland
2024 Athens x Beirut, K.O.T.E.S. – Booze Cooperativa, Greece
2024 Stranger than Fiction 2nd iteration, Bet Aam Beirut, Lebanon
2023 Gabes Cinema Fen, Gabes, Tunisia
2023 69th International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, “To Be Continued”, Germany
2023 23rd Mediterranean Film Festival, Široki Brijeg, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2022 69th International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, International Competition, Germany
2022 17th International Short Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 38th International Kurzfilmtage Hamburg, International Competition, Germany
2022 10th International Architecture Biennale & Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
2022 Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile
2022 Oumsiyat Short Film Nights, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Always Already: Dystopian Temporalities, Berlin
2022 Fescilmar Session for the First Time, Poland
2022 The Wathann Film Festival, Yangon, Myanmar
2022 16th WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2022 7th Festival Internacional Signos de Noite, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Festival Internacional Signos de la Noche, Tucumán, Argentina
2022 The Wave Exhibition, Online
2021 Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Vol. 7
2021 Redeem, Modellprojekt Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
2021 Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance, Room Gallery, UC Irvine, California
2021 Art, Ecology, & the Commons, Beirut RiverLESS, Lebanon
2021 Aflamuna, Online
2021 Voice Affairs, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany
2021 Memories in Music II: Focus Lebanon, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2021 Voice Affairs, ECLAT Festival Nnue Musik Stuttgart, Germany
2021 Academy Young Meetings, Museum of Contemporary Art of Gallarate, Italy
2021 Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale: School of Waters. San Marino
2021 Show Us the Money, and We Will Resist, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
2021 Écrans du Réel, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 20/20/on/offline, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
2019 Beirut Lab: 1975(2020), Room Gallery, UC Irvine, California, US
2018 RE: Bacherlor Machines, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Video Works, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Filmography & Videography
2025 The Vanguard Outside of History
Produced by Sursock Museum, Instituto Guimarães Rosa, and Temporary Art Platform
2021 Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely
Produced by Beirut DC and International Media Support
2021 This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own
Produced by Doha Film Institute, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and Goethe-Institut
2020 Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck In Time
Produced by Beirut Art Center: 20/20/on/offline
2016 Yabandjo
Produced by Ashkal Alwan: Video Works
Published Writings
2024 Homage to the Honest Soldiers, The Public Source
2022 The Whole Life, Hause der Kulturen der Welt
2022 Not, Not Nation, Khabar Keslan
2021 Time Extraction Unit’s Neologicon, Portable Grey
2021 Transformative Solidarity in Times of Subaerial Warfare, The Funambulist Magazine
2020 Culture and Revolution: Toward A Leftist Politics of Oscillation, The Public Source
Teaching and Academia
2019 – 2021 American University of Beirut: Adjunct Professor
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
The Technological Imagination
Video Art
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies
Intro to Digital Media
Digital Media Practices
2019 The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts: Visiting Lecturer
School of Cinema
Mediated Realism: A Short History of Film and Television