EDUCATION |

• 2020-2021| KASK & Conservatorium, Gent, Belgium | Audiovisual Arts

• 2013-2015 | Tarbiat modares university faculty of art and architecture, Tehran, Iran| M.A. in Animation

• 2008-2012| Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran| B.Sc. in Biology

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS |        

• 2019| Sound, interaction and audiovisual aesthetics in contemporary experimental animation: Workshop at the department of cinema and theatre, Tehran University of Arts, Tehran, Iran.

• 2019| “Animation;experiment” collective’s panel discussion: Experimental animation expansion and the importance of film collectives, Emruz Gallery, Isfahan, Iran.

• 2019| Reconsidering animated documentary: Interview with Sylvie Bringas, Cinema Animation Quarterly – Iranian Documentary & Experimental Film Center, vol.15

.• 2019| “Animation;experiment” collective’s panel discussion: Experimental animation expansion and the importance of film collectives, 11th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran.

• 2019| Experimentalism and Alternative Spaces for Animation (seminar), Tarbiat Modarres University’s Animation week, Tehran, Iran.

• 2019| Returning omitted History with Animation, Cinema Animation quarterly– Iranian Documentary & Experimental Film Center vol.14

• 2018| Translation of Protest in Motion: Discover how political animations thrived behind the Iron Curtain, Cinema Animation Quarterly – Iranian Documentary & Experimental Film Center vol.13.

• 2018| Translation of Who’s Who in Filmmaking: James Whitney, Cinema Animation Quarterly– Iranian Documentary & Experimental Film Center vol.11&12.

• 2017| Translation of A Curious Chapter in the Manual of Animation: Stan VanDerBeek’s Spatial Politics, Cinema Animation Quarterly, Iranian Documentary & Experimental Film Center, vol.9.

• 2017| Expressive characteristics of animated performances, Animation and the World to come: 2nd Iran national animation conference selected Articles book, DEFC publications, Tehran, Iran.

• 2017| The intersection between animation and new media arts, 10th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran.

GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS|    

• 2024| Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community, Film/Video Kuenstlerinnenprogramm

• 2023| Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community, Research Scholarship for Visual Arts

• 2019| Roberto Cimetta Fund, Selected for General Fund focus Persian speaking countries

• 2019| 11th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran, (ASIFA Iran’s special prize to “Animation;experiment” collective)

• 2017| 10th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran, (Winner: Best Master’s Thesis)

• 2016| Atf Film Festival (Research, Technology and Innovation) Tehran, Iran, (Winner: main prize in experimental and new media category)

SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS |     

• 2025| Remnants Exhibition at TCS festival, Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin, Germany

• 2023| DOK short n’ sweet, International Leipzig festival of Documentary and Animated film, Leipzig, Germany

• 2023| Chromatic Wednesdays 22, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany

• 2023| Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

• 2023|  Unveiling the Past: Films by female filmmakers from Iran, Arche Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

• 2023|  Generations, Exhibition at SoundsAbout Gallery, Projektraum Zwitschermachine, Berlin, Germany

• 2023|  Not knowing That it is Alive and Pregnant, Film screening curated by Experimental Film Society, fsk Cinema, Berlin, Germany

• 2023 |  SoundS Master Exhibit, Group Exhibition at Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany

• 2022|  Taube Erde, Part of The Driving Factor, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany

• 2022|  The Other Side of Water, Group exhibition at Podroom Gallery in the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2022|  Slow Hearing, Opening exhibition of Rabt space, Tehran, Iran

• 2021|  UdK Rundgang: Lietze mon amour , Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• 2021|   Noxte vol. IV group exhibition, curated by Nullsight, Part of Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

• 2021|   Mémoires des autres mondes group exhibition: Espace Croisé center for contemporary arts, Roubaix, France

• 2021| Dust to come, Amber network Festival, Berlin, Germany

• 2020| Future Threads digital program: Dust to Come, The mosaic rooms in collaboration with New Media Society, London, UK

• 2020| The Room: First Phase, Pejman Foundation’s non-physical exhibition platform, Tehran, Iran

• 2019| H/F digital exhibition space, New Media Caucus non-profit association for the development of new media art, Evanston, IL, USA

• 2019| pose Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

• 2019| Animation Walk, Isfahan, Iran

• 2019| Limited Access 8 Festival, Platform 3, Tehran, Iran

• 2019| Limited Access 8 Festival, Aaran Gallery and New media Projects, Tehran, Iran

• 2019| Animation Walk, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, Austria

• 2018| ARGH show group exhibition, Argh! Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany

• 2017| Action On Film Festival, World Cinema Iran, Las Vegas, USA.

• 2017| Limited Access 7 Festival, Animation Forum, Aaran Gallery and Rooberoo Mansion, Tehran, Iran

• 2016| 14^th Image of the Year Film Festival, Tehran, Iran.

• 2016| Atf Film Festival (Research, Technology, and Innovation), Tehran, Iran.

• 2016| 33rd Tehran International Short Film Festival (parallel section), Tehran, Iran.

• 2016| Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, Canada.

• 2015| Aliha art gallery, De/Attach Performance, Tehran, Iran.

• 2015| Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat modares university, Tehran, Iran

• 2015| OKTO.TV, Vienna, Austria

•2015| 5^thBideodromo experimental film festival, Bilbao, Spain

• 2015| 9^thTehran international animation film festival, Tehran, Iran

• 2015| 12^thNahal film festival, Tehran, Iran

• 2014| 12^thImage of the Year film festival, Tehran, Iran

• 2014| 12^th Image of the Year Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran

• 2014| Eastern Breeze film festival, Toronto, Canada

• 2014| 2^ndDelete-Tv film festival, London, England

• 2014| 4^thKhorshid film festival, Tehran, Iran

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |

• 2025 – Present |  Mentor and Lecturer for experimental film and animation, Hand-made Film School, Khanesh Cultural Institute (Literature & Art). Tehran, Iran.

• 2023 – Present | Art Director, Animation Director, Uncle Filmi, Directed by Nazgol Kashani, Produced by Fabian&Fred, Hamburg, Germany.

• 2025 | Facilitator, Score for a (local) practice: workshop and listening session,  part of The Listening Biennial 2025, Rabt, Tehran.

• 2024 – Present | Director, Production Manager, Darmiyaneh Animation Platform, Current Project: Animation web series of “Women research Hub” on “Prohibition of Violence Against Women” funded by City University of London and Bristol University.

• 2023 | Facilitator, Collective Listening Session Between Listening Academy and Rabt Space, Listening Biennial, Tehran/Berlin.

• 2022 | Panel organiser, Tehran Contemporary Sound Festival, Bethanien studio 1, Berlin, Germany.

•2022 | Videographer, Editor, Photographer, Korea Verband e.V.
Peace Statue on Tour in Germany — Action Week Against Femicide and Sexualized Violence Video production commissioned by Gyeonggi Province Wolfsburg – Kassel – Berlin, Germany.

• 2022 | Video Documentarian, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin (nGbK), The Driving Factor project group — Taube Erde Tour Zinnwald / Freiberg, Germany

• 2021 | Video Documentarian, Korea Verband e.V. 30 Years of Breaking the Silence
Berlin, Germany.

• 2021 | Curator’s assistant, Note IV, Bethanien studio 1. Berlin, Germany.

• 2021 | Intern, Animation Filmmaker, Amnesty International Region Gent, Created for 60th Anniversary of Amnesty International, Gent, Belgium.

• 2021 | Curator, “Animation; experiment” in collaboration with New Media Society, Visual velocities, KASKcinema, and X-ray projects, Gent, Belgium.

• 2018-2019 | Art and Media Supervisor, RAH Foundation, Non-profit health organisation (Committed to Sexual health awareness in the Middle east and Northern Africa).

• 2017 – present |New Media Society, Project Space, Archive & Library based in Tehran. Member of “Animation;Experiment”a collective dedicated to the study, discussion, and dissemination of experimental and expanded animation practices beyond cinematic formats.

• 2016 | Coordinator and Documenter, Cooperation with Conflict Kitchen (an experimental

public art project based in Pittsburgh founded by Jon Rubin). Iranian virtual cooking lesson project. Tehran, Iran.

• 2015-2020 | Art director, creative director, Animator, Media Content producer, Photographer, and Editor, JOL Studio, Creative Studio.

• 2015-2019 | Editor, Writer, Translator, Cinema Animation Quarterly, Iranian Specialised Quarterly in Animation Studies, Experimental Animation Department.

• 2017-2018 | NODET (National Organisation for Development of Exceptional Talents), Teaching Animation and Experimental Filmmaking.

• 2015 | Moderator, Cooperation with New Media Society,“Animation and beyond” talk session, Lajevardi Foundation. Tehran, Iran.

• 2014 | Animation for children workshop Instructor, Bambook Center, Imagoon group Tehran, Iran.