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Nationality: Lebanese
Education:
MFA, Filmmaking, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999;
Ph.D. candidate, Cinema Studies, New York University, 1991-93;
Graduate Fellow, Filmmaking, Harvard University, 1990-91;
MS, Filmmaking, Boston University, 1991;
BS, Filmmaking, Boston University, 1989
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| Hisham is a filmmaker and scholar from Lebanon. He has studied in the US with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz, Miklós Jancsó, and Annette Michelson and lectured on filmmaking and film aesthetics and history in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, France, and Japan. Much of his work may be viewed as meditations on the themes of exile and melancholy. These visual meditations are shaped by his personal experience of interceding between the Middle East of his Arab-Muslim upbringing and Anglo/European art and culture. Emerging from this personal context, his work reflects political and social concerns with contemporary Arab politics and culture and aesthetic concerns with painterly values and the poetics of modern life. His work has been shown in the Arab world and internationally, including Louvre museum (France), Cairo Opera House (Egypt), Biennale Des Cinema Arabes (Paris, France), Milan Film Festival (Italy), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York), among others. Hisham has served as a jury on a number of international film festival including the Chicago International Film Festival. He has founded the digital film studio at the Lebanese American University (Lebanon, 1995), co-founded the digital film department at the Korean National University (Korea, 1999), and established digital filmmaking at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT 2000-2003. He is now working with a group of Arab filmmakers on creating the Arab Institute of Film.
http://www.hishambizri.com/
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