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 selected to Final Cut in Venice, working in progress competition, at Venice Film Festival 2022.

Filmography

  • 2003 Visit Iraq (Director/Writer/Editor/Producer) short
  • 2006 The Roof (Director/Writer/Editor/Producer)[9]
  • 2007 Balconies (Director/Writer/Producer) short
  • 2009 Port of Memory (Director/Writer)[10]
  • 2015 Recollection (Director/Writer/Editor/Cinematographer/Producer)[2]
  • 2019 It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus (Director/Writer/Editor/Producer) short
  • 2020 An Unusual Summer (Director/Writer/Editor/Producer)
  • 2022 Paradiso, XXXI, 108 (Director/Writer/Producer) short
  • 2023 A Fidai Film (Director/Writer/Editor/Producer)

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Kamal Aljafari | The Cinematheque". thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  2. 1 2 Lee, Shimrit (2016-03-07). "Reclaiming Phantoms in Kamal Aljafari's "Recollection"". Warscapes Magazine. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  3. 1 2 Himada, Nasrin (September 28, 2010). "This Place They Dried From The Sea: An Interview with Kamal Aljafari". Montréal Serai. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  4. ↑ "dffb › blog". www.dffb.de. Archived from the original on 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  5. ↑ "An Evening with Kamal Aljafari - Harvard Film Archive". hcl.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-04. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  6. ↑ https://kamalaljafari.art/
  7. ↑ "Focus - Kamal Aljafari". September 2021.
  8. ↑ https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/locarno75/program-75/film.html?fid=1292287&l=en&eid=75
  9. ↑ Tedone, Gaia (March 28, 2012). "Kamal Aljafari: Inhabiting Gestures (review)". Afterall. Archived from the original on 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  10. ↑ webadmin. "Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  11. 1 2 ""Visit Iraq" (2003) and "The Roof" (2006)". The Middle East Center at Penn. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  12. ↑ "74th Locarno Film Festival (Concorso Internazionale: Jury)". Locarno Film Festival. July 3, 2021. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
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