Homa Sarabi is a filmmaker, educator, and programmer, from Iran. She is a member of the Feminist Futurist collective, a LEF Flaherty Fellow, and a Mass Cultural Council grantee. Through moving image installations, non-fiction storytelling, and media arts Homa explores the spaces of physical and emotional distance and connection, history, and personal and collective memory. In addition to her independent curatorial practice, she collaborates with the RPM Film Festival as a programmer and serves as the shorts program director for Salem Film Fest. She teaches 16mm filmmaking and collaborative design studios at Emerson College, where she is a faculty fellow with the Engagement Lab.
Fellowships and Awards:
2024- MassCultural Council
2024- Presidential Grant, Emerson College
2022- Engagement Lab Fellow, Emerson College
2021- Flaherty Seminar LEF Foundation Fellow
2020- MassArt Graduate Artist In Resident with Srishti Institute, India
2016- MFA Dean Scholarship, MassArt
Exhibitions & Screenings:
2024. Yušká: Uncoil, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston,MA
2023. Automatic Aura, Installation Space, North Adams, MA
2022. Little Splinters, MassArtxSowa, Boston, MA
2020. Po-Up exhibition, Space Us, Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
2018. New England Media Symposium Screening, Boston, MA
2017. MassArt Film and Video Graduate Thesis Screening, Boston, MA
2017. MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2017. Ritual: A Collaborative Video and Sound Installation, MassArt Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
2016. see[Self]see, The Phenomenology of Perception, Arnheim Gallery, Boston, MA,
Curating & Programming:
2024- Sustainability Teach-In Film Screening, Emerson College
2024- Salem Film Festival, Short Program Director
2023- Revolution Per Minute Festival, Progammer
2023- Visions of Contemporary Iran, MassArt Cine Culture
2023- Radical Imagination, Responding to a Climate Crisis, Bright Light Cinema Series
2023- Contemporary Iran, Visions and Documents, Independent Film Festival of Boston
2023- Subtle Images of Everyday Revolt, Brightlight Cinema Series
Teaching Experience
Emerson College :
-Collaborative Studios- Engagement Lab
As part of transforming Narratives of Environmental justice, this course focuses on hybrid storytelling through a futuristic lens.
-Film Foundation
Introduces the basics of non-synchronous 16mm filmmaking, including camera operation, principles of cinematography and lighting for black-and-white film, non-sync sound recording and transfers, and picture and sound editing.
Rhode Island School of Design:
-Intermediate Studio, Live Action
Film is a year-long course emphasizing technical production in sync with sound filmmaking. Theoretical concerns and cinematic techniques are stressed. We explore concepts of (and the relationships between) narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking.
-Video Practices
In Video Practices, students will work with digital video cameras, sound recorders microphones, and editing and color correction software. Through projects, screenings, in-class assignments, and readings, students will explore key concepts in digital moving-image making to build, expand, and deepen their time-based practice.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design:
-Graduate Film Major Studio
The Film/Video seminar is a critique course where the graduate student meets weekly with a Film or Video faculty to present and discuss work-in-progress. Visiting artists often participate in classes.
-Studio Foundation, Time
Working in a wide range of media, students are introduced to basic concepts of art and design in time. Students will develop an understanding of temporal concerns across a wide range of time-based work including narrative, performative, spatial, tactile, and digital approaches.