Niki Kohandel

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	<title>Niki Kohandel</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A DEPARTURE</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:53:04 +0000</pubDate>

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	A departure
2025, 2’ - 16mm to digital.&#38;nbsp;

'A departure' begins with a question: how do we navigate on disappearing rivers, seas, sources, bodies of water endangered by neo-colonial extraction? The film responds to the call of Sohrab Sepehri's poem 'Beyond the Seas' and invites the viewers to build their own paper boat.

Commissioned by Open City Documentary Film Festival for the 2025 festival trailer. 

Performance: GolCHER. 
Camera: Daniel Owusu
Writing &#38;amp; editing: Niki Kohandel
Boat architects: Frea Xinyi Lei &#38;amp; Daniel Owusu
Boat musicians: Bint M’Bareh &#38;amp; Afsaneh


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Screenings:18/10/2025: ‘listening, when words refuse blooming anew’ at ‘Niki Kohandel:  مينويسم (We are writing)’ LUX Moving Image, London.

Selected 15. Nominated by the shortlisted artists of the Film London Jarman Award 2024. Curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).&#38;nbsp;

5th June 2025, Fabrica, Brighton.
12th June, CCA Glasgow.&#38;nbsp;
13-14th June, Somerset House, London.&#38;nbsp;
25th June, Nottingham Contemporary.&#38;nbsp;
5th July, CAST Cornwall.
10th July, Spike Island, Bristol.
19th July, Towner, Eastbourne.
24th July, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>MINEVISSAM</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>

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	Minevissam (I am writing)
2023, 18’ - 16mm &#38;amp; super 8 to digital.&#38;nbsp;

Minevissam maps the journeys of various characters, whose pasts continue to echo through other times and places. As they search for better words and worlds, a poet, a painter and an owl attempt to translate their tales for and with each other.

and the daughter began to tell a storyabout seeing when colours remain silent to youabout listening, when words refuse blooming anew

With Sanam Monteiro, Leila Monteiro &#38;amp; the voices/writings of Mitra Rezaei, Jamshid Kohandel assisted by Marie-Hélène Le Ny, Mina T. Azar, MonaCamera: Niki Kohandel, Nia Fekri, Amadou Barry
Music score: Hal H. LewisEditing: Niki Kohandel
Film scan: On8Mil &#38;amp; Andrew Northrop
Made after Anju by Annabel Nicholson


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Upcoming:3rd March 2026, ‘backseat dreaming’, Film Diary NYC @ Millenium Film Workshop.&#38;nbsp;


Past screenings:8th December 2025, Swedenborg Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London.12th September - 2nd November 2025, ‘Niki Kohandel: (We are writing) مينويسم’, LUX Moving Image, London.

8th May 2025, LE18 Marrakech, in conversation with Ines Yahiaoui.

7th December 2024, ‘Harkat 16mm Film Festival’, Mumbai. 

17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 

24th + 25th July 2024, Lago Film Fest ‘Princìpî Award’, Revine Lago, Italy.

3rd July 2024, ‘On Listening’, three short films by Niki Kohandel at Other Cinemas, Metroland Studios, London.&#38;nbsp;

28th April 2024, Open City Documentary Festival,‘Combined programme: I am writing’ at Genesis Cinema London. Accompanied by ‘Intimate Inscriptions, four films on writing’, text by Hannah Bonner.

14th October 2023, BFI London Film Festival, ‘Everything worthwile is done with other people’ at ICA London (world premiere).


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		<title>THE SPARROW IS FREE</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:35:58 +0000</pubDate>

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The Sparrow is Free
2021, 14’ - Hi8 film


In an empty house, a young woman hears a voice. The tales it evokes lead her to recreate scenes from her grandmother’s past life. &#38;nbsp;

Through a window into the life of the filmmaker's grandmother, Kohandel's short interview-film explores gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Voice: Paridokht IranpourCamera: Niki Kohandel &#38;amp; Mitra RezaeiEditing: Niki Kohandel


گنجشک آزاد است&#38;nbsp;

۱۴۰۱

۱۴' - Hi8


از مصاحبه فیلمساز نیکی کهندل با مادربزرگ خود، شرایط زنان ایرانی در اوائل قرن بیستم را میتوان لمس کرد. در هفده سالگی ، این دختر نوجوان مجبور به ازدواج با پسر عمه خود می‌شود. همسری که سالیان سال او را زیر سلطه خود قرار میدهد و سرانجام ، این پیوند را به ناکامی و طلاق می کشاند. در نهایت ، برای فرار از این موقعیت و به امید ساختن زندگی جدید ، به همراه دو فرزندش ، تصمیم مهاجرت به فرانسه را می‌گیرد. با شنیدن داستانهای گوناگونش ، پی می بریم که چگونه می‌توان با تصمیم و انتخابی تازه ، فصلی جدید در زندگی خود را آغاز کنیم. در پاریس ، آن 
.خوشبختی ساده ای که همواره در جستجویش بود را پیدا می کنند. گنجشک آزاد است


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Past screenings:

8th May 2025: LE18 Marrakech, in conversation with Ines Yahiaoui.

17th December 2024, NIDA : A series of invitations / alarms / calls for action, curated by Collectif Faire-Part, Kunsthal Ghent, Ghent. 
5th December 2024, ‘Experimenta India’, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore.

17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 

2nd July 2024, Popup Emaus, Lisbon.
3rd July 2024, ‘On Listening’, three short films by Niki Kohandel at Other Cinemas, Metroland Studios. 

18th April 2024, Migrant Voices in Contemporary European Cinema, University of Kent. 

11th-25th January 2024, ’Interiors’ by EastEast Films, online. 

7th December 2023, ‘Cinema Farhangian’, Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim.

12th November 2023, ‘Artists for Woman, Life, Freedom’ curated by Farah Dailami, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield.&#38;nbsp;

14th &#38;amp; 23 May + 21st June 2023, Sinematek Istanbul.

5th June 2023, ‘Films From Iran, For Iran’, Vienna Shorts 2023, METRO Kino, Vienna.

25th May 2023, ‘Tracing Entanglements’ + Q&#38;amp;A with Isral Al-Kassi - Festival of the Moving Image,&#38;nbsp;
curated by Tape Collective, Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL, London.

Flying Broom Festival, 2023, Ankara.

18th-23rd April, Porto Femme International Film Festival, Porto.

18th, 19th &#38;amp; 21st April, ‘From Anywhere’, curated by Maryam Tafakory, 35th International Short Film Festival Dresden.

21st March 2023, Just Another Year: Persian New Year, The Nordic House Reykjavik.&#38;nbsp;

9th March 2023, How Dare You Have Such a Rubish Wish + The Sparrow is Free, Barbican Cinema, London

3rd-5th March 2023,&#38;nbsp;From Rosa to Simone Film Festival, Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group, Tbilissi.&#38;nbsp;

3+5th February 2023, Films from Iran for Iran: Intergenerational Transmissions, Anthology Film Archives, New York. 
28th January 2023, Maryam Tafakory: Rememberings, London Short Film Festival, ICA London.

14th December 2022, ‘Films from Iran for Iran’ + Q&#38;amp;A with Katayoun Jalilipour &#38;amp; Elhum Shakerifar, programmed by Another Gaze, ICA London.

4th December- January 2023, ‘Films from Iran for Iran’, Another Screen/Another Gaze.

Programme reviewed in:
- Libération - «Films From Iran for Iran», flammes vies et libertés’ by Sandra Onana-5Harfliler - “İran İçin İran’dan Filmler” Seçkisinden Feminist/Kuir Birkaç Kuple by Lara Özlen

15th November 2022, ‘Only the Voice Remains’, curated by Parwana Haydar, screening with Neelofar Abrahimi’s I Remember, SOAS University. 
17th November 2022, Film Diary NYC ‘Almost There’, Millenium Film Workshop.
26th November 2022, ‘Migration and Femininity’, London Migration Film Festival, The Ritzy Cinema. 

July 2022, on-demand, Cryptofiction.

29th - 30th June 2022, DOCUMENTARIST İstanbul Belgesel Günleri- Istanbul Doc Days, Institut Français.

18th - 30 th June 2022,&#38;nbsp;GODSPEED: 18 short films by a new generation of diary filmmakersA gallery group show in collaboration with Millennium Film Workshop, curated by Nick Ramsay and Saint Piñero.

22nd Jan 2022, Root/25 Micro-film screening for Restless Beings.

21st Jan 2022, London Short Film Festival, ICA London.&#38;nbsp;
‘New Shorts Documentary: The Promise of Hapiness?’ curated by Miranda Mungai.

18th Nov 2021, Girls in Film at House of Vans, London ‘It’s the family you choose’, curated by Raheela Suleman.
5th Oct 2021, Conch art collective presents ‘3 films by Niki Kohandel’ at&#38;nbsp;SOAS University, London

Jul 2021, streaming on shashamovies, ‘CLOSE CUTS: 23 films around local cultural traditions’


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		<title>... THEN LOVE</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:38:06 +0000</pubDate>

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	...- then love is the name
2022, 7’ - 16mm &#38;amp; Hi8 film, silent.&#38;nbsp;

A reflection on education and an ode to the bonds that are formed by students at, (and in spite of,) the institution they are studying within. By weaving together footage from the 2021 anti-racist occupation of the Slade School of Fine Art with scenes from the install of the art school’s class of 2020 degree show, the academy emerges as a site of frustration as much as of achievement. Running over both events - , from the final touches of varnish being put on a painting to protest banners being unfurled across the building, - is text from former Slade student and tutor Christine Kirubi’s poem ‘… - then love is the name’ from which Kohandel’s film takes its name. (Open City Docs)


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Past screenings:

17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 

8th Feb 2024, ‘Artists in Residence: Work, Play and Protest’ at Barbican Centre. 

12th Sept 2022,&#38;nbsp;Open City Documentary Festival 
‘Sab Changa Si + ...- then love is the name + QA with Teresa A Braggs &#38;amp; Shai Heredia ’ at Genesis Cinema, London. Accompanied by ‘Beyond Romances of the Negative’, text by Siavash Minoukadeh.


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		<title>JUST ANOTHER YEAR</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>

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	Just Another Year
2020, 6’10 - Hi8 film

This home video documents how a mother and a daughter celebrated Norooz at home. As they aren’t surrounded by an Iranian community, some of the rituals such as jumping over fire have been adapted to living in a flat. The film looks at the small but important domestic gestures that constitute the setting of the Haft-Sin table, embracing this poetical approach to life which is performed again every spring.

	
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Past screenings:

17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 
23rd-29th February, ARQIVO &#38;amp; PESQISA: Relatos Sagrados, Cine Humberto Mauro Mais (online), curated by AFM Archive &#38;amp; Research.

21st March 2023, Just Another Year: Persian New Year, The Nordic House Reykjavik. 

15-22nd March 2022
passerby magazine &#38;amp; Habibi Collective Norooz celebration&#38;nbsp;
5th Nov 2021, T A P E Collective ‘Roots, Seeds, Flowers, Fruit’ at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK. 
8th - 22nd March 2021, Habibi Collective and MoMA Virtual Cinema&#38;nbsp;present ‘A new wave of women moving image-artists from South-West Asia and North-Africa’Museum of Modern Art, New York

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		<title>ALBALO</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>

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Albalo
2021, 2’20 - hand-painted &#38;amp; etched 16mm film
What happened when a doll swallowed a cherry pit...

	
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Past screenings:

17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.&#38;nbsp;

3rd July 2024, ‘On Listening’, three short films by Niki Kohandel at Other Cinemas, Metroland Studios. 

December 2023, Analogue Short Film screening at&#38;nbsp;Black Soil Film Festival, Amsterdam.&#38;nbsp;

14th October 2023, Analogue Short Film screening, not/nowhere, curated by Samara Addai and Taylor LeMelle

17th Oct 2021, Culturala journal launch at the Steamship, London

5th Oct 2021, Kemi’s House presents ‘3 films by Niki Kohandel’ at SOAS University, London


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	SHOWS, TALKS &#38;amp; RESIDENCIES

2026Jan: Ch(a)rita Grantee 2026-2027 
+ ‘La carte des jours’, with Les Mamans Douées &#38;amp; Lucie Maxin in ‘Archéologies’, Fondation Dar Bellarj, Marrakech. Curated by Laila Hida &#38;amp; Inès Yahiaoui

2025

Sept: Niki Kohandel: ‘(We are writing)&#38;nbsp;مينويسيم’
Solo exhibition at LUX Moving Image, London.

July: Resistant Materials: Block C Residencies, Cubitt Gallery. group exhibition with Jasmin Bhanji &#38;amp; michael.
May: The Collective Workshops, Dar Bellarj, Marrakech - with Lucie Maxin.

Apr: guest speaker at Not A Film School, led by Gasworks Participation Resident Michael.

2024

July: Other Cinemas: Collective Imaginings, Metroland Studios, London.

Apr: Caravane Tighmert, 10th edition, Morocco.&#38;nbsp;

Jan: In a world not so different from ours, RIVA School project at Our Lady and St-Joseph, Dalston.


2023

Dec:&#38;nbsp;‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ with Selene’s Archives, Reference Point, London.

Sept: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ + ‘Cross-(r)evolutionary Sound Archives’ workshop, Open City Documentary Festival 2023.

July: ‘The birds, the ladder, the painter &#38;amp; their songs’, Greatorex Street Gallery, Duo-show with Clemens Grömmer.

May: Slade Undergraduate Degree Show, UCL +&#38;nbsp;Minevissim, a workshop on translation as creation, co-facilitated with Sanam Monteiro.
‘On Waiting as a form of resistance’, curated with Jumana Abboud and Nastassja Simensky, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.&#38;nbsp;

Apr:&#38;nbsp;Persepolis + introduction, British Film Institute.

Mar:&#38;nbsp;‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ curated by Mojeanne Behzadi, Projet Casa,&#38;nbsp;Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

Feb: ‘Eviction Notice’, curated by Pocket Trap Contemporary.

Jan: Visiting workshop facilitator with Shahre Farang, Goldsmiths, BA Politics, Performance and Society.

2022

Nov: ‘Through the Foreign City’,&#38;nbsp;a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring how moving from one space to another can challenge or nurture us. Collaboration with Wassle Stories &#38;amp; Babylon Project,&#38;nbsp;London Migration Film Festival 2022.

Oct: ‘A Night Of Music Boxes’ at Pollocks’ Toy Museum, museum takeover, screening and live performance with Joe Hatchwell.

Jun: Shahre Farang exhibition + fundraiser, Avalon Cafe Bermondsey, London, UK.

May: ‘Running Late’, Changing Rooms Gallery, London. Slade BA3 Group show, 
curated by Ella Schlesinger.

Feb: Shahre Farang x Decolonise Art History Cambridge, John Hughes Art Festival.


Losing Track, an exhibition in response to HS2 by irreplaceable world

2021

Nov: Slade 150 Past, Present, Future, Octagon Gallery, UCL (Until Aug 2022).
‘Stealing Vegetables’ curated by Cherry Song, Hal H. Lewis &#38;amp; Qiu Janye.

Aug: Noorderlicht Photo, Groeningen,
 ‘The Makeable Mind: Student Open Call’.

Jul:&#38;nbsp;The Chemistry of Feeling, Community exhibition at Gulf Photo Plus, Dubaï, UAE.


May:&#38;nbsp;POSTED, era journal postcard exhibition


Apr: contributor to&#38;nbsp;form IV/Thing 18 ‘From the drained pool’.

2020

Sept:&#38;nbsp;Mommy’s Rug video installation screening at ‘Juice’, a&#38;nbsp;group exhibition curated by Cherry Song, Shenzhen, China.


 Feb: I am that flower (2019) screening at Platform 1, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK.
2019 

Dec: Spaceship. Dungeon. Zoo. A group exhibition at Alvaro Barrington’s studio, London.&#38;nbsp;

May:&#38;nbsp;CSM Foundation Show, Lethaby Gallery, London. 
CSM x LUX Moving Image, London&#38;nbsp;
Waterlow Art Park II, London.&#38;nbsp;East Meets West, 
Platform 272 Gallery, London, UK.


PRESS &#38;amp; REVIEWS

2025A Departure in ‘BFI Sight and Sound 2025’, nominated by Elhum Shakerifar.&#38;nbsp;‘To You, To Her, to Her: on Minevissam (I am writing)’ by Alma Chaouachi, commissioned 
by LUX Moving Image. 
&#38;nbsp;
On creating Open City Documentary Festival’s 2025 Trailer&#38;nbsp;
2024

Intimate Inscriptions: Four Films on Writing by Hannah Bonner

Interview with&#38;nbsp;EastEast ‘Interiors: The Sparrow is Free’

2022
passerby magazine, camera roll with Niki Kohandel

2021
In conversation,&#38;nbsp;An evening with Habibi Collective, MOMA Virtual Cinema
UCL News, 7 questions with Niki Kohandel

2020
era journal, UCL Arts &#38;amp; Culture Interview: Niki Kohandel


EDUCATION

2019 - 2023 : BA Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

2022 : Other Cinemas Film school

2021 : Global Photographies Network, La Hydra (online)

2018 - 2019 : Foundation Diploma in Art &#38;amp; Design, Central Saint-Martins, UAL


AWARDS&#38;nbsp;

2025
Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize&#38;nbsp;
Selected 15, videoclub/FLAMIN

2024
EastEast Interiors Open Call Prize&#38;nbsp;

2023
Rosa Morison Memorial Award &#38;amp;Prankerd Jones Scholarship, UCL

2022Herbert Seaborn Award, Slade, UCL

2021&#38;nbsp;
Sue Jamieson Memorial Award, Slade, UCL


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1. Slade Undergraduate Degree Show 2023.&#38;nbsp;
2. Open Closed, 2019, (1’28) at LUX Moving Image.3.Chemistry of Feeling, Installation shot, Courtesy of Raheed Allaf.&#38;nbsp;4. Blossom,&#38;nbsp;2019, digital print on tyvek behind aviary grid, Waterlow Park.


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