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Myriam is a French-Syrian artist, filmmaker and facilitator. Working with oral testimony and embodied visuality, her practice explores themes of loss, belonging and memory. She began making films while studying medical anthropology at University College London. Her work has been shown at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Arts London (2025), Millenium Film Workshop NY (2025), the New Art Exchange, UK (2023), The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, UK (2021) and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2020). It also featured in group exhibitions, notably as part of Provence Art Contemporain, Marseille (2025), Warsaw Fringe at Sauna Space (2024) and Images Festival, Toronto (2022) among other programmes. Her films have screened at festivals including Fisura Festival of Experimental Film, London Short FF, Aesthetica SFF and Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, amongst others. They have received awards for Best Video Poem at the Los Angeles Film & Video Poetry Symposium (2020), Best Short Doc at Nova Frontier Film Festival in New York (2019), Honourable Mention at Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (2018) and the Inspiration Award at the AHRC Film Festival (2015). Myriam was selected as part of the BFI Network & BAFTA crew (2018) and was part of Bridging the Gap talent initiative (2017) at the Scottish Documentary Institute. Her recent work, absent landscapes (2023), was commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella in London. |