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Education
 
2020 - 2024 BA VAV - Moving Image, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2019 - 2020 Preparation course Advanced Year, Stenebyskolan, Dals Långed, Sweden

2018 - 2019 Preparation course Form och Design, Stenebyskolan, Dals Långed, Sweden

2017             Foundation programme Pattern design, Tillskärarakademin, Gothenburg, Sweden





Filmfestival

2025 Öppen Salong, Hagabion, Gothenburg, Sweden

2024 Cinedans Filmfestival, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023 Refuge, fleeing, flowing, leaking, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023 Frame Filmfestival, Bioroy, Gothenburg, Sweden

2022 Just A Bridge, filmfestival, Neverneverland, Amsterdam, Netherlands





Exhibition

2025 GIBCA Extended, Tynnered, Gothenburg, Sweden

2023 ElviraxRedshadecollective, Club3, Haarlem, Netherlands  

2023 Parasitting, Neverneverland, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022 SAINT, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2019 Tio Fingrar Upp Till Gud, Frilagret, Gothenburg, Sweden

2019 Isolated Freedom, Utställningshallen, Dals Långed, Sweden





Freelance work  



2023 Video installation in collaboration for a performance by Saman Mahdavi;  Fire is not a metaphor fire is a manifesto, Veemhouse in Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022 Production music video, pre-production, post-production, costume design, makeup for Nadia Nair - Character

2022 Creator of a weeklong stop-motion workshop for children

2022 Creator of a three week long workshop for young adults employed by the city of Gothenburg

2021 Production music video, pre-production, post-production, costume design, makeup for Nadia Nair - Billy

2021 Creator of a three week long workshop for young adults employed by the city of Gothenburg

2020 Video documentation, prduction for Nadia Nair - Character (a performance)





Collaboration  

2024 crySIS, shortfilm, in equal collaboration with Bea Bayon & Maira Darja

2022 Delta(x), performer at short opera performances in The Opera Forward Festival, OFF Labs

2021 drag you there, shortfilm by Bea Bayon, Inès Destruhaut, Greta Galiauskaite and Medina Balesic

2020 Crazy barbie, shortfilm by Helena L, concept, dop, gaffer, director





Videobased Project

crySIS

M1

KOLO

ILY (part of installation)

ILY soundtrack

Nadia Nair - Character

HUNNY

best water i ever had

MBIGGUOS33445678

part II

Nadia Nair - BILLY

part III

drag you there today

scratching the itch

pt 2 (part of installation)

pt 1 (part of installation)

the CONfused1

no more bodies

aLIVE (part of installation)

haha (part of installation)

MELTDOWN

Nadia Nair - Character (a performance)

Crazy barbie

SimTher 2020