Asma Ghanem
Asma Ghanem (born 1991) or Asma Ghanem Miller, is a Syrian-born Palestinian visual artist, photographer, and experimental musician. She is best known for her short documentary film, Wall Piano (2020).
Asma Ghanem
- Name
- Asma Ghanem
- Born
- 1991
- Birthplace
- Damascus, Syria
- Education
- IAAP, Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse
- Occupation
- Visual arts, photography, experimental music
- Nationality
- Palestine · Syria
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Asma Ghanem (born 1991) or Asma Ghanem Miller, is a Syrian-born Palestinian visual artist, photographer, and experimental musician. She is best known for her short documentary film, Wall Piano (2020).
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Asma Ghanem (born 1991) is a film director and musician, a national of Palestine and Syria. The film director was born in Damascus.
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• Name — Asma Ghanem • Native Name — أسمى • Born — 1991 • Birthplace — Damascus, Syria • Education — IAAP, Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse • Occupation — Visual arts, photography, experimental music • Works — Fi Alard, HOMELAND IS…, Wall Piano.
Life and career
Life and career
Asma Ghanem was born in 1991 in Damascus, Syria, and raised in a refugee camp with her family. Ghanem graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine - IAAP (Ramallah, Palestine) and she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse (France). Ghanem started her career working on an experimental music project called Shams Asma (شمس أسمى). About this, she says: In 2014, she produced her first experimental album titled Fi Alard (في الأرض). In 2015, her Photography received special mention in the Palest’In & Out festival, a festival to promote talented young Palestinian artists that it held in Paris (France) and organized by Institut Culturel Franco-Palestinien. In 2016, her experimental music project called HOMELAND IS… won the 3rd Prize in the Young Artist Award (YAYA) of the Hassan Hourani Award. In 2021, her documentary film Wall Piano was selected at the Tampere Film Festival (Tampereen elokuvajuhlat), a short film festival held at Finland. In this festival, it received the special mention and the Audience Award. She currently lives in Ramallah (Palestine).
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Film — Writer — Director — Notes • 2020 — Wall Piano — Short film
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Asma Ghanem is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation musician. Institutional cataloguing adds that asma Ghanem is recorded as a citizen of Syria. Recorded with the gender female. It is also recorded that asma Ghanem was born in Damascus.
Awards
• 2015: Special mention in the Palest’In & Out festival; • 2016: 3rd Prize in the Young Artist Award (YAYA) of the Hassan Hourani Award (HOMELAND IS… - an experimental music project). • 2021: Special mention and the Audience Award of the Tampere Film Festival (Wall Piano - a short film).
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- 1.Asma Ghanem. Festival Scope Pro.
- 2.Asama Ghanem. Zawyeh Gallery. 29 January 2021.
- 3.Doran, John. The playlist: Middle Eastern and North African music. The Guardian. 27 June 2014.
- 4.Asma Ghanem. One Beat. 2017.
- 5.Palestinian artist Shams Asma connects life under occupation with experimental sound. Arab America. 28 February 2015.
- 6.Boyce, Laurence. Al-Sit wins the Grand Prix at Tampere. Cineuropa. 15 March 2021.
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