BANI KHOSHNOUDI

Articles and Interviews

IRAN: regards d’artistes sur une révolution en cours, BEAUX ARTS Magazine, Juin 2023
Passeuse d’images – Bani Khoshnoudi, entretien pour le programme de radio “Wi Watt Heure” par Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna
Review of El Chinero, un cerro fantasma, by Monica Delgado, DESIST FILM, May 2023
Entretien de Bani Khoshnoudi, réalisatrice de El Chinero: Un Cerro Fantasma, de Roxane Becharat, Médiapart, March 2023
‘El Chinero, un cerro fantasma’, exposición sobre xenofobia e ignominia, SomosMass99, Ciudad de México / Miércoles 25 de mayo de 2022
Full 2 page interview in il manifesto (Italian newspaper) by Cristina Piccino, December 30, 2022 (PDF)
“Films From Iran for Iran”, flammes vies et libertés by Sandra Onana, Libération, December 17-18, 2022
Texts for the program on Another Screen – “Films from Iran for Iran”, December 2022
Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (ARTIST PAGE)
LUCIERNAGAS : itinéraire d’un jeune-homme gay entre tension érotique et réflexion politique by Jean François Frontera for Canal +, November 20, 2020
Review of Fireflies by Ludovic Béot, Inrockuptibles, January 22, 2020
Entretien avec Bani Khoshnoudi, réalisatrice de “Luciérnagas” by Cédric Lepine, Médiapart, January 22, 2020
Entretien avec Bani Khoshnoudi, by Didier Roth-Bethoni, Hétéroclite, January 9, 2020
“Luciérnagas” : belle rencontre entre trois égarés à Veracruz, Review of Luciérnagas by Mathieu Macheret in Le Monde, January 20, 2020
Fireflies review by Jonathan Holland, Hollywood Reporter, January 2020
Fireflies review by Carlos Bonfil, La Jornada, January 2020
Luciérnagas, un sensible retrato sobre la migración, by Ricardo Marín, Gatopardo, January 2020
“Luciérnagas” : tout quitter, LILYLIT blog, 2019
Iran: la parole déliée by Hugues Perrot for Cahiers du Cinéma, January 2017
“Contre-attaques” by Nicole Brenez for Soulèvements (Uprisings) by Georges Didi-Huberman, Gallimard – Jeu de Paume, Livres D’art, 19 October 2016
Répétition, rébellion, répression 100 ans d’histoire d’images en Iran by Laure Veermesch, VACARME, November 2016
An ethics of questioning, Interview with Bani Khoshnoudi by Nicole Brenez. Blog, Each Dawn a Censor Dies for the JEU DE PAUME MAGAZINE, December 2015. (English / French)
Où on est la nuit? Elle commence à lutter avec le matin by Nicole Brenez, Cahiers du Cinéma, January 2015
“Le documentaire prend le macquis ardéchois“, Sandrine Marquès, Le Monde, 26 août 2014
The Silent Majority Speaks’ Filmmaker Reveals Herself and Talks Revolution, interview with Film Comment / Film Society of Lincoln Center (ART OF THE REAL Festival), April 2014
“Silencing art” Lebanese authorities blocked the screening of The Silent Majority Speaks, a 2010 documentary on Iran’s Green Movement, NOW Magazine, November 2014
“Un documentaire iranien évoquant des manifestations anti-régime a été interdit au Liban,” LE SOIR, November 2014
Le Volcan Documentaire ou “Réflechir en direct” by Nicole Brenez, BREF Magazine, Dossier, 2014, Bref 100/Volume 1
Entretien avec Bani Khoshnoudi, réalisatrice de A People in the Shadows, by Laure Constantinesco, TV5 Monde, Décember 2014
“Ziba”, la situation d’une femme comme métaphore d’un pays by Hala El-Maoui for Le Progrès Egyptien, March 8, 2013
Le Réel en Porte à Faux, by Eric Loiret, Libération, March 2009
Points Aveugles by Christophe Kancheff, Politis, March 2009
Interview with Bani Khoshnoudi for La Dinamo Magazine (Spain) by Tariq Gomez-Kemp, 2008
Review of Transit by Yann Goupil, BREF Magazine, 2005

“Speaking to the conditions of transience and exile, while liberating that experience from the exclusively diaristic
realm of personal identity politics to be as distinctive as it is necessary. Bani leans in to disorientation and otherness, revealing
an on-the-ground thinking that values pilgrimage as research. Bani’s work is sensorial and playful, sensuous yet dissatisfied,
stubborn in its pursuit of the unspoken and the under-represented. Her idiomatic shifts and cinematic key changes impart a creative
impatience around complacency of language or method. The films question how the distance of bodies might be tied
to mechanisms of vision, and prompt us to consider complex ethical relationships to home and place.”

Herb Alpert Award Jury, 2022 : Deborah Stratman (filmmaker), Romi Crawford (professor), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (artist) 