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About Me

MINOU NOROUZI is an Austrian/Iranian moving image artist & TED Fellow. She lives and works in London & Linz.
Whilst giving the impression of layered fiction her work is routed in documentary practice.
Her thematic preoccupation lies in the psychological landscapes of incubated desire, displacement, authoritarianism & surrender, misplaced femininity, often framed within the mundane.

Video works have been shown at CCA Glasgow, Calvert 22 London, QUAD Derby, CUBE Gallery Manchester, Skopje Biennal , Los Angeles Filmforum and Telic Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as at film festivals internationally.
She has worked in documentary productions for Channel 4, ITV, BBC2, CBC, and continues to work as a lecturer.
Anatomy of Failure, her first full-length documentary work premiered in Toronto at Hot Docs 2008. All Shades of Grey, supported by the British Council premiered at the 55th Oberhausen Festival in Germany.

Minou co-founded the curatorial initiative Sheffield Fringe, which launched in June 2011 to coincide with Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's premiere documentary festival & market. Sheffield Fringe aims to supports conceptual approaches to documentary practice.

Location:
United Kingdom, London
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
documentary theory & practice
I am:
Artist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Foodie, Producer, Project manager, World traveler
Associations:
Sheffield Fringe
Languages:
German, English, Persian
My website links:
www.minounorouzi.com, www.sheffieldfringe.com
Universities:
Goldsmiths College, University of London, University of the Arts London
TED conferences attended:
TED2011
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I'm passionate about

Expanding public perception of what constitutes documentary form. The detail in almost anything. Salads. Time.

An idea worth spreading

Movement exists in stagnation.

Talk to me about

Strategies & contributions to ensuring the proliferation of culture in an excessively product driven society.

People don't know that I'm good at

Domesticity.

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  • A comment on Conversation: When, How and Why have your most strongly held views changed?

    Apr 25 2011: At a friend's party last night I was thinking, for the longest time my friends in their mid-20ies seemed to possess this diamond sparkly currency called youth.
    For me ageing has been the single most humbling change-making process, one I am able to observe daily with wonder thinking: wow I didn't expect that! This process has greatly inspired my work but also my approach and attitude towards people.

  • A comment on Talk: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

    Apr 19 2011: simple, clear logic at it's best....mad max sexy too
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    A comment on Talk: VS Ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain

    Mar 26 2011: Ramachandran is incredibly entertaining, presenting complex ideas on the function of the brain. I love it that he is applying his findings to theories on abstraction, metaphor & creativity.
    I can't decide whether - besides being a scientist - he is also a poet or a stand-up comedian: "you can't have disembodied pain floating out there".

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