Iris Cahn is a full professor and for almost twenty years, chaired the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, New York.
Cahn earned her M.A. from New York University and her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase College. She edits feature films and documentaries, including Powaqqatsi (directed by Godfrey Reggio, music composed by Philip Glass), Worst Possible illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz (also receiving writing credit), Fragments of Kubelka, Lessons From an American Primary (which she also produced), Devo: Are We Not Men?, was supervising editor on Ornette: Made in America (directed by Shirley Clarke), and directed short films which have screened at the New York Film Festival and on network television. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for specials and a series.[1] Her work has appeared at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, in addition to Berlin, Lincoln Center and the Robert Flaherty Film Festival.