Amin Behroozzadeh, Fellow, Film and Media Arts, 2024

Amin Behroozzadeh is a musician, photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. His art links human experience and emotions to a cinematic language using images, sound and music as the main language of film. His first film, “Fish Eye”, premiered at the international film festival “Visions du Reel” and won awards at film festivals around the world. As a composer and sound artist, Amin has worked on several award-winning Iranian films, including “Braving the Waves”, “Dark Matter”, “I Want to Be a King”, “Density Of Emptiness”, “Bodies and Worlds”, “Mother, I’m Joseph” and “The Art of Living in Danger”. His recent work as a sound artist and composer can be seen in two experimental short films, “Phobos” and “Density of Emptiness”, which were produced in collaboration with the Wim Wenders Foundation. He is working on a collection of video installations entitled “Eyes and Sounds” (2024 – in progress), the first fragment of which he showed in March 2024 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. His new film is an experimental format, which he is developing as part of the Berlin Air Film Residency in 2024.