SELECTED NEWS / SCREENINGS


-----2011----

UNTIL MORNING




A FILM




MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Imagine Fund to develop my filmmaking practice, UofM



----2010----

A FILM




Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
Special Jury Prize for my script Until Morning, "the most innovative and courageous script"



University of Minnesota, USA
Imagine Fund



Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Special Guest Panelist Pitch Your Project Workshop, with Isabelle Fauvel, Mira Nair, Cat Villiers, and Joe Pichirallo



Retrospective, Minneapolis, MN
The Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Focus on a Filmmaker: The Films of Hisham Bizri



SONG FOR THE DEAF EAR




----2009----

KYOTO, JAPAN
A FILM
The 13th Kyoto International Symposium on Visual-Media Practices, Japan



VILLA MEDICI, ROME, ITALY
Song For the Deaf Ear



NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Cabaret, American Academy in Rome: December 2, 2009
(featuring performances by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed among others, and film and video by Hisham Bizri among others)



ROME, ITALY
Curator, Cineform

Awarded the John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for 2008-2009
http://www2.cla.umn.edu/news/college_news/BizriRomePrize.htm



SCREENINGS
The Films of Hisham Bizri, Anthology Film Archives
Kyoto Film Expo 2009



----2008----

ROME, ITALY

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL
Awarded the 2008 McKnight Filmmaking Fellowship from
The Independent Feature Project



AVIGNON, FRANCE
ASMAHAN has been selected for second edition of
Corto del Med film festival



AVIGNON, FRANCE
VERTICES has been selected for second edition of
Corto del Med film festival



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL
Grant-in-Aid of Research
Artistry and Scholarship Program
University of Minnesota TC



SINGAPORE
Jury Member, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)
http://www.isea2008.org



----2007----

MADRID, SPAIN (11/30/2007)
Intro and Q & A of Hisham Bizri's film ASMAHAN
Reina Sofía National Museum Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/portada/portada.php



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/06/2007)
Lecture by Professor Hisham Bizri,
EYES SEE NOTHING BUT THE STARS: Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmóniák
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3999



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (9/13/2007)
Filmmaking master class with Béla Tarr
The University of Minnesota,
The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (9/7/2007)
Lecture, THE FILMS OF INGMAR BERGMAN
Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN http://www.mnfilmarts.org/oakstreet/calendar_detail.php?id=676&day=2007-09-09"



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (4/6/2007)
Awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in the 83rd annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This is the most Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to university faculty since 1982. [more]

(pdf of Guggenheim fellows).



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (2/4/2007)
Lecture, COSMIC TENSIONS IN BELA TARR'S SATANTANGO
Minnesota Film Arts, Oak Street Cinema
http://www.mnfilmarts.org/oakstreet/



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/27/2007)
A Video Interview with Kenneth Anger
Downtown Minneapolis
http://ecc.umn.edu/MN%20Film%20History/anger.html



MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/26/2007)
An Evening with Kenneth Anger
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3625