Irani Bag

Maryam Tafakory works with film and performance, creating textual and filmic collages that stitch together poetry, documentary, and archival material. Exploring the different registers through which images speak or refuse to speak to us, her films attempt to dissect veiled acts of erasure – of bodies, intimacies, and histories. her research-based projects consider what is often neglected and discarded as trivial and excessive. she has an ongoing body of video essays in dialogue with post-revolution iranian cinema.
Based between shiraz and london, her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including MoMA; National Gallery of Art; Tate Modern; BOZAR; Cannes’ Directors Fortnight; New York Film Festival; Locarno; HKW Berlin; Toronto International Film Festival; Villa Medici; FICUNAM; Oberhausen; True/​False; M HKA; and Anthology Film Archives, amongst others.

She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58^th Chicago Int’l Film Festival, the Tiger Short Award at the 51^st IFFR, the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60^th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Best Experimental Short Film at the 70^th and 71^st Melbourne International Film Festival, amongst others. She was the 2019 Flaherty/​Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence, and a MacDowell Fellow in 2022.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team and edited by Le FIFA’s team

Selected films:
Nazarbazi (2022)
I have sinned a rapturous sin (2019)
Absent wound (2018)
Poem & stone (2017)
Fragments of (2016)