SELECTED NEWS
2009
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 M. 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 M. 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 M. 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 M. 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