About
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Rana is a documentary filmmaker, researcher, writer, and archivist, with teaching experience in Film + Digital Media. She’s published essays and exhibited her work in regional + international arts + culture exhibitions. Her ongoing documentary + archival project “1001 Walls” tells stories and counternarratives through walls and her most recent research and practice examine Saudi’s vision trajectory through analysis of Aramco films.
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Research interests: Film + Visual Studies, Critical Archival Studies, Media Ecology + Archaeology, Arabic Graffiti.
Exhibitions & Festivals
2021 Harvard MediNA – Virtual.
2019 Middle East Now Festival – Florence, Italy.
2019 Cinema Akil – Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2019 Mostra de cinema árabe feminino – Brazil.
2017 AFAC Film Week @ Sudan Film Factory, Khartoum, Sudan.
2017 AFAC Film Week @ Cinémathèque de Tanger, Tangier, Morocco.
2017 Malmö Arab Women Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden.
2016 Arab Film Festival, San Francisco & Oakland.
2016 Saudi Film Festival, Dammam.
2016 Imagine Science Exhibition Abu Dhabi.
2016 Imagine Science Film Festival Abu Dhabi.
2015 Dubai International Film Festival.
2015 Carmel International Film Festival.
2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival, NY
2014 Walls of Change. Marseille, France.
2014 1001 Walls. Santa Cruz, CA.
2013 Errors Allowed – BJCEM Biennale. Ancona, Italy.
2012 If Walls Could Talk. Manama, Bahrain.
2012 Inverted Worlds. Beirut, Lebanon.
Publications
2018 Know Your Enemy: the Saudi women’s driving campaign
2017 Arabic Graffiti of Resistance
2016 Walls of the GCC (photo essay)
2014 The Seeds of a Graffiti Revolution
2013 Words Are Weapons
2013 The Medium and The Message on Bahraini Walls
2011 Bahrain’s Calligraphic Writings