| Birth Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Education: | Boston University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Occupation: | Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Curator, Professor |
| Awards: | Bogliasco Fellowship, 2019Rome Prize, 2008Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 |
Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon. Bizri began working in film in the US with filmmaker Raoul Ruiz. Bizri has directed over 25 shorts and one feature film. His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Beirut), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Beirut), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC). He previously taught at Brown University, the University of Minnesota, MIT, UC Davis, NYU, Boston University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, and Jordan. His students have gone on to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague).[1]
Bizri's films have been shown in international venues including Sundance,[2] Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen, Moscow, and Abu Dhabi film festivals as well as the Louvre, Institut du Monde Arabe, Cinémathèque Française, Centre Pompidou, MoMa, and Anthology Film Archives (NYC). He is recipient of awards from the McKnight, LEF, Jerome, and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, and American Academy in Rome, which awarded him the "Rome Prize" (FAAR 2009).[1]
| Year | Title | Length | Format | Notes | |
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| 1989 | The Dream | 7 minutes | |||
| 1989 | The Sun | 5 minutes | Super-8 | ||
| 1990 | The Third of May | 9 minutes | 16mm film | ||
| 1990 | The Dream of a Ridiculous Man | 22 minutes | 16mm film | ||
| 1991 | The Leaves of a Cypress | 15 minutes | Betacam SP | ||
| 1991 | Vertov's Valentine | 12 minutes | Betacam SP | ||
| 1992 | Message from a Dead Man | 20 minutes | 16mm film | ||
| 1997 | Mitologies | Stereoscopic Cinema | |||
| 1997 | Las Meninas | Stereoscopic Cinema | |||
| 2002 | City of Brass | 24 minutes | Betacam | ||
| 2002 | La Rencontre | 28 minutes | DV | Based on the short story "Emma Zunz" by Jorge Luis Borges. | |
| 2002 | Chabrol á Biarritz | 23 minutes | DV | Interview with Claude Chabrol | |
| 2005 | Vertices: Beirut.Dublin.Seoul | 32 minutes | DV | A film for three screens. | |
| 2005 | Asmahan | 21 minutes | 35mm film | ||
| 2008 | Song for the Deaf Ear | 18 minutes | 16mm film/High-definition video | Silent but for the last minute
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| 2010 | A Film | 8.32 minutes | 16mm film/High-definition video |
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| 2012 | Sirocco | 18 minutes | 35mm film |
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| 2016 | Beneath the wide wide Heaven | 15 minutes | 35mm film |
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| 2017 | Hisham Bizri Retrospective |
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| 2017 | Night Shift | 4.51 minutes | music video |
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| 2017 | Shooq aka The Wanderer | 42 minutes | |||
| 2018 | Selected shorts |
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| 2019 | Of Yellow was the outer Sky | 8 minutes |
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| 2021 | Elektra | 89 minutes | 35 mm film |
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