Emily Jacir
Awards
Filmography
- 2019 Letter to a Friend
- 2017Notes for a Cannon - 17 min.
- 2014Tal al Zaatar - 60 min.
- 2009Lydda Airport - 5 min.
- 2004Ramallah/New York - 38 min.
- 2003Nothing Will Happen (eight normal Saturdays in Linz) - 20 min.
- 2003Entry Denied (a concert in Jerusalem) - 105 min.
- 2003a sketch in the Egyptian Museum - 1 min.
- 2002Annual Israeli Day Parade, New York City - 3 min.
- 2002Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work) - 132 min.
- 2002From Texas with love - 60 min
- 199915 Palestinian Minutes in Palestine - 15 min.
Director Story
Born in 1972 in Bethlehem, West Bank, is an artist, filmmaker, and educator who lives and works between Bethlehem and Rome. Her artistic practice spans a range of strategies including film, photography, sculpture, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound. She investigates silenced histories, exchange, translation, transformation, resistance, and movement. Her works have been widely exhibited all over the world since 1994, and she has been honored for her achievements with several awards including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); a Prince Claus Award (2007); the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum (2008); the Alpert Award (2011) from the Herb Alpert Foundation; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2015); among others. She is the founder and Executive Director of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem.