BIO

    Panos Aprahamian is a Berlin-based Armo-Lebanese unfiction filmmaker, media artist, and writer from Beirut’s peripheral rustbelt. Through language, image, and ritual, his practice explores the spectral presence of the future past in undead bodies, sacrificial landscapes, and social relations.

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Curriculum Vitae

Film, Video, Text, and New Media 


Education


  • LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

    MA in Documentary Studies 2015
  • LEBANESE ACADEMY OF FINE, UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND

    BFA in Film and Animation 2008



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