FILM ACTIVITIES
2004 - Present
- Film Collaborative - Founding Director (fc.umn.edu)
- E-Center - Director (ecc.umn.edu)
- AIF - Co-founder and Academic/Production Director (aif-film.org)
- The Essential Cinema of Peter Kubelka - Curator (more info)
- Cinema and Society in the Arab world - conference and film festival Co-curator (hishambizri.com/arabfilmconf.html)
2003-2004
- UC Davis - Head of Time-Based Arts (http://artstudio.ucdavis.edu)
2000-2003
- Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT - fellow in digital filmmaking (cavs.mit.edu)
- Experimental Films by Arab Women Filmmakers - curator (www.coolidge.org/balagan/arab_women_spring2003.html)
1999-2000
- KNUA - visiting professor of filmmaking (www.knua.ac.kr/new2005/eng/about/greeting.asp)
1994-1995
- LAU - Lecturer in film and video (www.lau.edu.lb)
1991
- Production Assistant to Hungarian Filmmaker Miklós Jancsó on his feature film "Blue Danube Waltz" shot on location in Budapest
1989
- Production Assistant to Chilean Filmmaker Raul Ruiz on his feature film "The Golden Boat" shot on location in New York City
1989
- Assistant to Chilean Filmmaker Raul Ruiz on his installation "The Expulsion of the Moors from Spain" at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts