Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghanis films public projects and installations have been presented and collected worldwide notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport the Guggenheim Smithsonian MoMA and Metropolitan Museums Documenta 13 and the Liverpool Lahore Gwangju and Sharjah Biennials and the Rotterdam CPHDOX Sheffield DocFest SFFILM DOC NYC and Ann Arbor film festivals among others Ghanis first feature the critically acclaimed documentary WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED premiered at the 2019 Berlinale was released theatrically in the US by Dekanalog and had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel It is in educational distribution with Good Docs international distribution with Arsenal and currently streaming on Docuseek and Ovid Ghanis most recent short THE FIRE THIS TIME was commissioned by Field of Vision and screened at BAMcinemaFest BlackStar and Jihlava IDFF in 2022 Her most recent multichannel installation WHEN THE SPIRITS MOVED THEM THEY MOVED is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Ghani teaches filmvideo at Bennington College and coproduces her work through the company Indexical Films