Bio
At the intersection of non-fiction filmmaking and experimental media art practices, Mozaffari's main interest is in creating poetic narratives that are candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects/experiences. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, including video-dumbo 2013 in New York, Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Australian Cinematheque in Queensland Gallery of Modern Art as well as festivals in Canada, Tehran, Poland, San Francisco, Switzerland, Sweden, Berlin, Norway, and New York. Originally from Tehran, Iran, Mozaffari received a Bachelor of Arts from San Francisco State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Filmography
Sensate Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice (online publication)
Rencontres Internaionales, Paris, Berlin, Madrid
video–dumbo 2013, New York, NY
art:screen, Black Box, Gislaveds Konsthall, Gislaved, Sweden
Surveilling the Naked City, Atopia Gallery, Oslow, Norway
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
The Story of Ama and Baba, 2011
Contemporary Collage of North American Artists, Poznan, Poland
Asian American Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
A Light at The End of The Tunnel, Scope Basel Pavilion, Switzerland
Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Short Story Film Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
Creation, Destruction, Chaos, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
Cut In Cut Out, Sullivan Galleries, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Australian Cinémathèque, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art,
Queensland, Australia
Festival du Cinéma de Paris, Paris, France
Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Golden Gate Fiction and Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Antimatter Film festival, Victoria, Canada
Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
I Inherit My Grandmother's Fear, 2009
Chicago Short Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
Sullivan Galley, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Three Times Upon a Time, 2008
Chicago Short Film Festival
Video Installations
Ajam Media Collective (online journal)
Cairo Video Festival
The Inconvenient Dead Project, 2012
Labrary Space, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Variations in Dialougue, 2009
School of The Art Institute of Chicago