Bani KHOSHNOUDI

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Bani Khoshnoudi was born in Tehran and immigrated to the USA in 1979.
She studied at the University of Texas at Austin, and has made documentary, fiction and experimental works. Bani is involved with installation and projection work as well, collaborating with musicians making improvisational and electronic works. In 2004, she directed TRANSIT, a short fiction which received the Grand Jury Prize at the Premiers Plans Angers Film Festival (Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Goteburg, Larissa…). The film was nominated for the Jean Vigo Prize and the Prix Novaïs-Terxeira. Also in 2004, she directed SHIRIN EBADI: A simple lawyer, a documentary commissioned for channel ARTE. In 2006, Bani founded her company, Pensée Sauvage Films, and directed her first feature documentary in 2008, A People in the Shadows, (IDFA, Cinéma du Réel, Dokfest Munich…) In 2008-09, Bani was a studio artist in residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York. There she continued her theoretical and artistic exploration of ideas of exile and modernity, displacement and dislocation. She is currently writing her first feature fiction, Ziba, which is an examination of a middle class couple in Tehran, while considering issues of class difference, real estate and geography within the city.
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