Rene Gabri
Rene Gabri was born in Tehran, moved to Athens, then Los Angeles, now based in New York. His solo projects are largely based around the mediums of film, video, audio and text. He has been exploring a broad range of topics including cities, memory, confession, popular culture, television, music
and issues related to in-between-ness and drifting in general. At the conclusion of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 1999, he was involved in setting up 16 Beaver group. His projects with Ayreen Anastas includes their “Radioactive Discussion” series, a physical counterpart to their fictional “Homeland Security Cultural Bureau” (hscb.org) project. Together with Erin Mcgonigle and Heimo Laner, he also works under the name e-Xplo, creating projects that involve mapping and exploring, and developing a vocabulary for particular sites. Most recently he has taught at the University of Architecture in Venice and the City University of New York in Staten Island.
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The New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival would like to
thank all of the film makers and other creative talents
involved in making this happen for a third year. Most of all,
we would like to thank the participating
audiences, for bearing witness.
See you all next year!
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