Mariam Ghani

Mariam GHANI (b. 1978, USA) holds a BFA in Comparative Literature and a MFA in Art from New York University. She is an artist, filmmaker, writer and teacher. Ghani's work is showed all over the world, and her critical writings are published regularly. She also co-authored the book Afghanistan: A Lexicon with her father, the anthropologist Ashraf Ghani. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Kabul.

Filmography

Blind Crossing / Crossing Blind (2000, instal), Universal Games (2000, short), My Name on Your Lips (Sounds So Foreign) (2001, instal), Progress/Armenia Dreams Gasoline (2001, instal), Permanent Transit (2002, instal), Friendly Fire (2002, short), Kabul: Reconstructions (2003, short), The Glass House Home Movies (2003, channel), TRACEXCHANGEXCAVATE (2004, instal), How Do You See the Disappeared? (2004, short), Kabul: Constitutions (2005, instal), Points of Proof: Detroit (2005, short), Fugitive Refrains (2006, instal), Kabul 2, 3, 4 (2007, instal), Three Surrenders (2007, short, co-dir), Smile, You're in Sharjah (2009, instal), Variations (On a Haunted Wood) (2009, instal), Points of Proof: Buffalo (2009, short), Going, Going, Gone (2009, short), Landscape Studies: New Mexico (Strangers in a Stranger Land (2010, short), The Trespassers (2011), A Brief History of Collapses (2012, short)