Simin Farkhondeh

Biography
Simin Farkhondeh, visiting assistant professor of film/video, is an award winning filmmaker, who has been working as an artist, educator and activist in New York, Europe and Iran. She was born in Germany and raised in Iran and went to college in the US. She is co-director of the Gulf Crisis TV Project, an award winning Deep Dish Television series that aired on PBS, Channel Four of England and was screened at the Whitney Biennial, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. From 1994 to 2003 Simin directed the award winning Labor at the Crossroads, a monthly TV program about work, which aired on cable in New York and other cities across the US. In 1999 she produced ADJUNCT AGONY, a short dramatic piece about the plight of adjunct faculty at US universities. In 2001 she co-directed SALT PEANUTS a look at the effect of September 11 on airline workers, which screened at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2003 she directed OTHER, a fiction short on the plight of Middle Eastern detainees. Simin is a recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship Award for Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips, a film about temporary marriage in Iran. Recently co-directed Caught Between Two Worlds, a feature documentary about Iranians in the USA and exhibited Voices from the Walls: Urban Expressions of Iran, an exhibition of photographic reflections on graffiti in Iran.

As a student advised by Simin, I would like to say that she is one of the best advisors i have worked with at hampshire. She really is committed to helping students, (although it took quite the chase to get her on my committee) and she really knows what she is talking about. She's also a total badass, and my role model as an artist.

Office Hours

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Courses

 * Iranian Cinema Close-Up, Mapping Time, Video I (Unheard Voices Heard)