Parwana Haydar works predominantly in film and moving image exploring themes such as memory, family, archives and displacement. She is a curator of Afghan Visual Arts and History Collective (AVAH), a curatorial collective highlighting artists from Afghanistan and the diaspora. In November 2023 she was awarded ACE's Develop Your Creative Practice grant to experiment with AI and immersive installation and investigate how a critical use of digital art can open a space for imagination enforced by loss of collective memory, culture and history of the displaced. She is a graduate of South London Gallery Radical film school, Other Cinema’s film school and a fellow of Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg artist in residence programme. As a member of AVAH Collective she has curated talks and workshops with institutions such as Void Gallery, Independent Cinema Office at the BFI and HKW in Berlin. Her films have shown in Haus Coburg City Gallery, Eigenheim Gallery, Interfilm Festival and Fotofestiwal.
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