Sara Rajaei

experimenteel - video - film - tekenen - artistiek onderzoek

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
  • Activiteiten
  • Toekenningen
  • Contact

    • Berlinale Short 2024

    Overig

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

    Whodunnit,

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 05-01-2024 t/m 28-01-2024
    • Locatie: Het Archive, Rotterdam

    No.2, Fluxibell.Structurs

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

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

    Off screen June

    Overig

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

    Now Festival

    Overig

    • 11-05-2023
    • Locatie: , Tiblisi

    IFFR, 2022

    Overig

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

    Vrijplaats, 2020-21

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • Locatie: FilmForward, Amsterdam

    Art stations of the cross, 2020

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: de Grote of Lebuinuskerk, Deventer

    Some Bodies; Narratives around the body, 2019-20

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: ICC, New Delhi

    Going back to Forget, 2017-18

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: Tent, Rotterdam

    To the sea, a lake or another river, 2017

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: Pogon Gallery, Zagreb

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

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: HULU, Split

    In the gaze of Panoptes, 2016

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen

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

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

    Circulating AIR, 2016

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • Locatie: Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen

    Saudade Noumenon, 2016

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

    (IN)Constancy Of Space, 2014

    • Locatie: The Ring Gallery/HDLU, Zagreb

    Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 2003-04

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • Locatie: , Amsterdam

    Prix de Rome 2009

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam

    IFFR, 2018

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • Locatie: , Rotterdam

    Name Takes Podcast

    Lezing

    • Locatie: Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Film Forward

    • 2020
      Stipendium

    • Mondriaan Fonds

    • 2019
      Stipendium

    • DKC Rotterdam

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Tijl Fonds

    • 2017
      Stipendium

    • Tent Rotterdam

    • 2017
      Stipendium

    • CBK Rotterdam

    • 2017
      Stipendium

    • Kulturradet- Arts Council Norway

    • 2016
      Stipendium

    • Hordaland Cultural Development Program/ KUP

    • 2016
      Stipendium

    • Mondriaan Fonds (Kunstenaar Basis)

    • 2023
      Stipendium

    • Mondriaan Fonds (Voucher Ontwikkeling)

    • 2023
      Stipendium

    • Nederlands FilmFonds/ Mondriaan Fonds (De Verbeelding)

    • 2022
      Stipendium

    • Nederlands FilmFonds (Onderzoek & Experiment)

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Nederlands FilmFonds/ Mondriaan Fonds (Ontwikkeling)

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • CBK Rotterdam (O&O)

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Het Cultuur Fonds (Tijl Fonds)

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • VEVAM Fonds (OCW Subsidy)

    • 2021
      Prijs

    • Prix de Rome, Short list

    • 2009