Zia Anger

Zia Anger works in moving images In 2018 she began touring a new solo performance that traces the last tenyears of her lost and abandoned work titled MY FIRST FILM The performance was named by The New Yorker as one of the Sixtytwo Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking Her most recent short MY LAST FILM premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival In 2015 her short I REMEMBER NOTHING had its world premiere at New DirectorsNew Films and its international premiere at Festival del film Locarno She has made music videos for various artists including Mitski Beach House Maggie Rogers and Jenny Hval the latter of whom she also toured with as a performer and stage director Her work has been written about in various publications including The New Yorker Cléo The New York Times Mubi Cinemascope and Filmmaker Magazine In 2016 Zia participated in the Sundance Institutes Screenwriters Intensive In 2015 Zia was included in Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue She is a 2015 fellow in filmvideo from the New York Foundation for the Arts In 2008 she was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her short film LOVER BOY BABS Ithaca College MFA School of the Arts Institute of Chicago