Curriculum Vitae
Film and Media Production Education
LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
MA in Documentary Film, 2015LEBANESE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, BALAMAND UNIVERSITY
BA in Audio-Visual Arts, 2008
Grants and Fellowships
- International Media Support and Beirut DC
Beirut - One Year Later 2021 - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy (Culture Resource)
Lebanon Solidarity Fund 2020 - Make Yourself at Home, Kaaysá Art Residency
Temporary Art Platform 2020 - FLC Solidarity Fund
Fondation Liban Cinema 2020 - Middle East Media Initiative and University of Southern California
Screenwriting Workshop 2020 - Doha Film Institute
Experimental and Essay Film Grant 2018 - Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association of Plastic Arts
Home Workspace Program 2017-2018 - Art Dubai Fellowship
With the support of Julius Bär Group 2017-2018 - Goethe Institut
Backstory Co-Production Fund 2017 - Beirut Backstory
Goethe Institut and Beirut Art Residency 2017 - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Cinema Development Fund 2017 - Ashkal Alwan and Robert A. Matta Foundation
Video Works Grant 2016 - Caspian Arts Foundation
Caspian Arts Scholarship 2015
Screenings and Exhibitions
- Cinemed Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier 2021
- 16th WNDX Festival of Moving Image Winnipeg 2021
- 19e Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris 2021
- Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance, After the Earth Has Ground Itself Down UC Irvine 2021
- Art, Ecology & the Commons, Beirut RiverLESS Beirut 2021
- Redeem, Haus Der Statistik Berlin 2021
- Aflamuna Online 2021
- Voice Affairs, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt 2021
- Memories in Music II: Voice Affairs – Focus Lebanon, Akademie der Künste Berlin 2021
- Voice Affairs, ECLAT Festival neue Musik Stuttgart 2021
- ACADEMY YOUNG MEETINGS: SCHOOL OF WATERS & RECOVERY PLAN, Museum of Contemporary Art of Gallarate Gallarate 2021
- School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Biennale San Marino 2021
- International Short Film Festival as part of Prophecies from the Sea selection Oberhausen 2021
- European Media Arts Festival, As part of Show Us the Money and We Will Resist Osnabrück 2021
- OUTROS Festival de Arte São Paulo 2021
- Ecrans du Réel Beirut 2017 & 2021
- 20/20/on/offline Beirut Art Center 2020
- Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Room Gallery, UC Irvine 2019
- HWP Open Studios, Ashkal Alwan Beirut 2018
- RE: Bachelor Machines, HGB Gallery Leipzig 2018
- Golden Apricot International Film Festival Yerevan 2017
- Art Dubai Film Program 2017
- Video Works 2016
- Open City Documentary Festival London 2015
Filmography & Videography
QUITE THE AFTERNOON
Work in Progress
ASSEMBLAGES 2021
commissioned by ECLAT Festival, Neue Musik and Akademie der Künste for Voice Affairs
ODORLESS BLUE FLOWERS AWAKE PREMATURELY 2021
commissioned by International Media Support and Beirut DC for ‘Beirut - One Year Later’
THIS HAUNTING MEMORY THAT IS NOT MY OWN 2021
I, HERE, NOW 2021
commissioned by Etch Platform
BILLY PILGRIM HAS COME UNSTUCK IN TIME 2020
commissioned by the Beirut Art Center for ‘Insecure’
CÂMARA 2020
commissioned by ANTRO POSITIVO for OUTROS Festival de Arte
NOT, NOT ARAB. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CORPSE. NOT, NOT ARAB. 2019
commissioned by Room Gallery, UC Irvine for Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)
NEOLOGICON Vol. I 2018
YABANDJO 2016
Published Writings
Not, Not Nation
Khabar Keslan 2021
Transformative Solidarity In Times of Subaerial Warfare
Funambulist Magazine 2021
Make Yourself At Home: Radical Care and Hospitality, Art of the Working Class
2021
Toward a Leftist Politics of Oscillation
The Public Source: Dispatches from the Revolution 2020
The Meme in the Age of Viral Replicability
Journal Safar 2020
Employment
Moz Media — Creative Consultant (part-time)
APRIL 2021 - PRESENT
American University of Beirut — Instructor
JANUARY 2019 - AUGUST 2021
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Three Dimensional Art III The Technological Imagination, Fine Arts and Art History Department
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The Reproducible Image III Video Art, Fine Arts and Art History Department
- Introduction to Digital Media Media Studies Program
Transterra Media — Video Production Manager
FEBRUARY 2013 - JUNE 2014
Future Television — Promo Producer
JANUARY 2010 - APRIL 2012