In Conversation with Mania Akbari, Another Gaze Journal,
I’m the storyteller of my own stories. My body, too, is a storyteller, full of memories, and continually challenging the world. A great part of the… Read more »
Talks and Events
Panel discussion between Mania Akbari& Hope Dickson Leach at Porteliot festival,
Saturday morning 28th July 2018, We explore the idea of ANOTHER GAZE, hosted by the film journal of the same name, in conversation with directors including… Read more »
Mania Akbari in conversation with Andrea Luka Zimmerman at Central Saint Martins,
March 6th, 2.30pm – 4pm, 002 Lecture Theatre for Mania Akbari in conversation with Andrea Luka Zimmerman. Mania will discuss the body as political through the… Read more »
The Body Politic, Work Shop at Open City Documentary Film Festival.
9th September 2017. Mania Akbari will be in conversation with Sophie Mayer (author, Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema) and Vali Mahlouji (Iranian art curator and… Read more »
Masterclass with Mania Akbari at BFI Future Film Festival
16th February 2017 -First documentary Crystal : In my first documentary “Crystal”. I have consciously got attracted to the story of a Kurd girl, which is… Read more »
Douglas White and Mania Akbari talk about new project at SLADE School of Fine Art part of the the UCL university
8th December 2016 “A Moon for my Father” is a collaboration between Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari and British sculptor Douglas White. It is a meeting of… Read more »
Talk at Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University
27th November 2016 Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University with Douglas White on Thursday 24th Nov to talk about our new project as part of… Read more »
‘A Body’s Memory’ Talk artist Mania Akbari at Ashkal Alwan- Beirut
23rd June 2016 Memory is not the preserve of words and images. There is a physicality to memory. We feel it in objects and it is written… Read more »
Poeticising the everyday – Seminar with Mania Akbari at Ashkal Alwan- Beirut
20 June 2016 “Everything Else is Ordinary” is a line that caps almost every entry in a found diary kept by an industrial worker in Delhi.… Read more »
Talk at Cambridge University
25th April 2016 One could guess there was a time in the history, when men and women had no idea about the meaning of equality or… Read more »