Sara Rajaei

experimental - video - film - drawing - artistic research

My oeuvre consists mainly of short films and video installations that study the notion of time in all variations and subsets. My work discusses the passage of time concerning historical incidents, human tragedies, and catastrophes from the standpoint of the witnesses or victims, reflecting on their observations, recollections, and memories; questioning, doubting, and reconstructing the events. Their narratives are, therefore, tangible, untainted, and highly personal. Today more than ever, our perception and observation of the world depend on the short headlines that we absorb without enough attention or affection. Oral history, in this regard, becomes a significant source, presenting not only an actual incident but a story to which one can connect, a story often therapeutic, both for the teller and the listener.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Awarded
  • Contact

    • Berlinale Short 2024

    Other

    • 15-02-2024 t/m 25-01-2024
    • Location: Berlinale, Berlin

    Whodunnit,

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-01-2024 t/m 28-01-2024
    • Location: The Archive, Rotterdam

    No.2, Fluxibell.Structurs

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-11-2023 t/m 12-12-2023
    • Location: Fluxibell.Structurs, Berlin

    Off screen June

    Other

    • 07-06-2023
    • Location: Worm, Rotterdam

    NowFestival

    Other

    • 11-05-2023
    • Location: , Tiblisi

    IFFR, 2022

    Other

    • 24-01-2022 t/m 04-02-2022
    • Location: IFFR, Rotterdam

    Free Place, 2020-21

    Residencies / exchange

    • Location: FilmForward, Amsterdam

    Art stations of the cross, 2020

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: the Grote of Lebuinuskerk, Deventer

    Some Bodies; Narratives around the body, 2019-20

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: ICC, New Delhi

    Going back to Forget, 2017-18

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Tent, Rotterdam

    To the sea, a lake or another river, 2017

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Pogon Gallery, Zagreb

    From an Unknown Destination to the Rest of the World, 2017

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: HULU, Split

    In the gaze of Panoptes, 2016

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen

    -(IN) Constancy Of Space, struggle for identity, 2016

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

    Circulating AIR, 2016

    Residencies / exchange

    • Location: Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen

    Saudade Noumenon, 2016

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

    (IN) Constancy Of Space, 2014

    • Location: The Ring Gallery/HDLU, Zagreb

    National Academy of Visual Arts, 2003-04

    Residencies / exchange

    • Location:, Amsterdam

    Prix ​​de Rome 2009

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam

    IFFR, 2018

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location:, Rotterdam

    Name Takes Podcast

    Reading

    • Location: Art Institute Melly, Rotterdam

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Movie Forward

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • DCC Rotterdam

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, Tijl Fund

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • Tent Rotterdam

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • Kulturradet-Arts Council Norway

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Hordaland Cultural Development Program/KUP

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund (Artist Basic)

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund (Voucher Development)

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • Dutch Film Fund / Mondriaan Fund (De Verbeelding)

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Dutch Film Fund (Research & Experiment)

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Dutch Film Fund / Mondriaan Fund (Development)

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam (O&D)

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • The Culture Fund (Tijl Fund)

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • VEVAM Fund (OCW Subsidy)

    • 2021
      Pricing

    • Prix ​​de Rome, Short list

    • 2009