Kamal Aljafari Explained

Kamal Aljafari - also written Kamal Jafari (Arabic: كمال جعفري، كمال الجعفري) is a Palestinian artist, film director and producer. His work has been shown at film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, Viennale and Rotterdam. and museums such as the MoMA and Tate Modern.[1] [2] He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany.

In 2004 he received the Friedrich Vordemberge Stipendium of the city of Cologne, 2005 Stipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds, 2005-2006 Imhoff-Stiftung Studio Stipendium at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. In 2009, he was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film seminar in New York.

Through 2009-2010 he was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University.[3]

He taught filmmaking at The New School in New York. 2011–2013, Kamal Aljafari was a senior lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[4] He was also a Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.[5]

In 2021 he was jury member for Leopard of tomorrow section of 74th Locarno Film Festival, and jury member for Burning Lights Competition of Visions du Réel, Nyon.[6] In 2021 Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil devoted its Focus Section on the work of Kamal Aljafari.[7] His latest film Paradiso, XXXI, 108 was premiered in 2022 at the 75 Locarno Film Festival.[8]

A Fidai Film, was premiered at Visions du Reel and won best film award Burning lights competition.https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film/2024/a-fidai-film/It also won two awards at Fidmarseille International Film Festival GNCR/CINÉ+ DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT PRIZE - RENAUD VICTOR PRIZE2024 https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/a-fidai-film/The short UNDR, 2024 Received Best EXiS Award at the Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoulhttps://ex-is.org/information/2024/7/25/exis2024-ex-now-

Filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kamal Aljafari The Cinematheque. thecinematheque.ca. en. 2017-04-04.
  2. News: Reclaiming Phantoms in Kamal Aljafari's "Recollection". Lee. Shimrit. 2016-03-07. Warscapes Magazine. 2017-04-04. en.
  3. Web site: This Place They Dried From The Sea: An Interview with Kamal Aljafari. Himada. Nasrin. September 28, 2010. Montréal Serai. en-US. 2017-04-04.
  4. Web site: dffb › blog. www.dffb.de. 2017-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20180120214426/http://www.dffb.de/html/en/blog. 2018-01-20. dead.
  5. Web site: An Evening with Kamal Aljafari - Harvard Film Archive. hcl.harvard.edu. 2017-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20180604220310/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2010aprjun/aljafari.html. 2018-06-04. dead.
  6. https://kamalaljafari.art/
  7. Web site: Focus - Kamal Aljafari . September 2021 .
  8. https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/locarno75/program-75/film.html?fid=1292287&l=en&eid=75
  9. Web site: Kamal Aljafari: Inhabiting Gestures (review). Tedone. Gaia. March 28, 2012. Afterall. 2017-04-04. 2019-08-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190805222317/https://www.afterall.org/online/kamal-aljafari-inhabiting-gestures#.WOFwARLys_U. dead.
  10. News: Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory Filmmaker Magazine. webadmin. Filmmaker Magazine. 2017-04-04. en-US.
  11. Web site: "Visit Iraq" (2003) and "The Roof" (2006). The Middle East Center at Penn. en. 2017-04-04. 2015-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20150927001136/http://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events/2010/april/visit-iraq-2003-and-roof-2006. dead.
  12. Web site: 74th Locarno Film Festival (Concorso Internazionale: Jury) . Locarno Film Festival . July 3, 2021 . July 3, 2021. en.

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