Tara Najd Ahmadi

Born in Tehran, Tara Najd Ahmadi is a non-fiction filmmaker andscholar. Her films focus on creating a panorama of marginalized narratives that can be gleaned through unofficial oral histories. In that space, she is interested in the ways in which subjects resist power structures and deal with the consequences. Retrospectives of her work have been shown in various places including Depot (Kunst und Diskussion)in Vienna, and the Academic Film Center in Belgrade. In 2019 she received her doctorate degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (NY), where she investigated the notions of “incomplete and unfinished” in art projects and films that were made during revolutionary times. Najd Ahmadi is also the recipient of the George Eastman Museum graduate fellowship (2016-2018), the New York State Council on the Arts Media Arts Assistance Fund (2017), Flaherty Film Seminar fellowship (2017) and Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (2018).

Filmography:
My Sleepless Friends (Austria, IRN, 20 min)
An Art Historian's Recipe (USA 2022, 7 min)
A Week with Azar (IRN/SVN/USA 2018, 11 min)
Productive Frustration (IRN/USA 2016, 13 min) 
The Drowning Friend (USA 2014, 2 min)
Measuring the Level of Resistance (IRN/USA 2012, 5 min)
Where Do You Think You Are Going? (USA 2012, 1 min)
Gut Theory (USA 2011, 5 min)

http://najdahmadi.com