Bahar Samadi baharsamadi13@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/baharsamadi/

Bahar Samadi (b.1981, Tehran) is a Tehran based filmmaker and artist. She studied Architecture at the Art Faculty of Azad University - central Tehran, Iran and graduated in Filmmaking from EICAR School in Paris, France in 2012.

In her works, she primarily reaches for found footages and what she has in her archive, using structural techniques like cinematic omission and narrative form diversion to rewrite the pictorial memory. Her attempt to decode the probable life of images, embarks an imaginary journey between the author and the spectator.

Her films and videos have been shown in a number of showcases, galleries and film festivals around the world such as «In Between (Part II): So Far», in Mana Contemporary-USA (2017), «Displacement» in Aaran Gallery - Iran (2016), «Semi Dark Room-Luminous Void» in Aaran Projects - Iran (2015), «Cork Film Festival» - Ireland (2014), «Fronteira - International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival» - Brazil (2014), «Limerick Avant-Garde Cinema, The Royal Picture Show» - Ireland (2014), «The 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival» - China (2013), «42nd International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR)» - Netherlands (2013), Chester Beatty Library - Ireland (2012) and «Iran via Video Current» in Thomas Erben Gallery - New York (2011).