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Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

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BFA, 2011, Tehran University of Art. MFA, 2013, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Films: They (80min, 2017); What Remains (19min, 2016); In the Trees (28 min,2015); Needle (21min, 2013); When the Kid was a Kid (17min, 2011); The Wind Blows Wherever it Wants (18min, 2008); Flakey[Fals] (14min, 2008). Screenings/Exhibitions: Cannes Film Festival, Official Selection, France; Cannes Film Festival, Cinéfondation Selection; Chicago International Film Festival; Melbourne International Film Festival; Transatlantyk Film Festival, ?ód?; Glasgow Short Film Festival; Black Movie Geneva International Independent Film Festival; Frankfurt Film Festival Lichter; Slamdance Film Festival, Utah; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Facets Cinematheque, Chicago; Utah Arts Festival; Tehran International Short Film Festival; Iranian Artists' Forum Cinematheque; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Iranian Film Festival; Fouladi Projects Gallery, San Francisco; Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi; The Lowry Gallery, Manchester. Publications: Mahnameh Film (Film-Magazine, Farsi); Dastan Magazine (Fiction Magazine, Farsi); Talkhouse; Andisheh Pouya (Bimonthly Humanities Publication, Farsi); Hayat-e-No (Farsi Newspaper). Bibliography: Chicago Tribune; Le Figaro; Screen Daily; IndieWire; Village Voice; Filmmaker Magazine; Dazed; Filmoria; Konbini; East Asia (France). Film Collections: Criterion Channel, Filmstruck; Dazed, Females First; Premium Films. Awards: the Cinéfondation First Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival; Best Feature Screenplay Award, Avvantura Festival, Croatia; Shortcut Competition Honorable Mention, Tofifest International Film Festival, Poland; Best Narrative Award, Eastern Breeze Film Festival, Canada; Special Jury Prize, Sardinia International Film Festival, Italy; Crystal Globe from Iranian Society of Film Critics and Writers?; Best Short Film, Writer and Director Award, Festival of the Iranian Cinema; Tribeca Film Institute IWC Filmmaker Award, Honorable Mention; Sarah Jacobson Annual Film Grant; Doha Film Institute Grant; Sundance Institute/Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Grant; Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship; Merit Trustee Scholarship from the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Courses

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Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the language and histories of the moving image arts and the diverse ways in which artists have contributed to them. Throughout the semester we will examine a range of approaches to creating moving image work. We will compare and contrast established ?norms? with radical and experimental approaches to these various media, leading to an understanding of the rich, complex, and evolving landscape upon which individuals have been making, and continue to make, moving image art. Students will engage with this expanded field through lectures, readings, screenings, meetings with visiting artists as well as becoming active in discussions and practitioners in the field via group projects. Working in small groups, students will complete a series of short projects to introduce them to the various pathways of the department. By the end of the semester, students should have gain basic production and postproduction skills as well a good understanding of the key concepts relevant to contemporary film, video, new media, installation and animation.

Class Number

1572

Credits

3

Description

An interdisciplinary studio that develops skills specific to the challenges of writing for time-based projects, especially works in film, video, installation, and performance. The primary focus is in-class writing, a range of textual experiments, and workshop /critique of students' writing in relation to their own works-in-progress. We pay attention to 'invisible' texts--the writing before the script, free-writing, conceptual issues--as well as overt ones. Special emphasis is placed on developing the ear in work on monologue, dialogue, and voice-over. The class reads and discusses selected scripts and writings by artists, screens films and videos, attends exhibitions and performances, and performs close analyses (another form of 'reading') of texts.

Class Number

1597

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1691

Credits

3