BIO

    Panos Aprahamian writes, teaches, and works with film and video. His work explores the spectral presence of the past and the future in human and nonhuman bodies, sacrificial landscapes, cultural practices, and social relations. He is a founding member of TEU: Time Extraction Unit.

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Curriculum Vitae

Film and Media Production 


Education





  • LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

    MA in Documentary Film, 2015
  • LEBANESE 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

  1. Three Dimensional Art III The Technological Imagination, Fine Arts and Art History Department
  2. The Reproducible Image III Video Art, Fine Arts and Art History Department
  3. Introduction to Digital Media Media Studies Program


Transterra Media — Video Production Manager
FEBRUARY 2013 - JUNE 2014


Future Television — Promo Producer
JANUARY 2010 - APRIL 2012