Ghazal Majidi is a new media artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Working across 3D animation, experimental film, installation, video games, and XR, her practice moves through the spaces between bodies and images, memory and architecture, dreams and displacement. She approaches digital space as a site where identity is contested and reconfigured, using emerging technologies as mediums through which perception can be unsettled.
Majidi situates her work within an expanded cinema of the unconscious, using dream-logic, non-linear storytelling, and virtual world-building to defamiliarize the mundane. Her practice often engages glitch, found archives, irony, and disorientation as narrative strategies, opening familiar images and environments onto more unstable, dreamlike, and uncanny registers.
Her work has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries including Currents New Media Festival, Mutek AE, Vienna Shorts, Brussels Independent Film Festival, MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Waking Life Festival, and more. Majidi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University.
Her work has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries including Currents New Media Festival, Mutek AE, Vienna Shorts, Brussels Independent Film Festival, MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Waking Life Festival, and more. Majidi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University.
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2024/ MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2018/ Bachelor of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2026/Currents New Media Festival, Twenty Twenty-five interactive installation, Santa Fe, USA
2026/ EMMEDIA Gallery, Particle & Waves festival, Twenty Twenty-five interactive installation, Calgary, Canada
2026/ Beursschouwburg, Feral Reverie Premiere, Brussels, Belgium
2025/ Beursschouwburg, Feral Reverie Avant-premiere, Brussels, Belgium
2025/ BC Culture Days, Interactive Collage and Augmented Reality Exhibition, NVRC, Norht Vancouver, Canada
2024/ Mutek UAE, Parallax interactive AR installation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2024/ CutOut Fest- International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Querétaro, Mexico
2024/ Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Mutek UAE, Parallax interactive AR installation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2024/ CutOut Fest- International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Querétaro, Mexico
2024/ Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Girona International Film Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Finalist in the Experimental Video section, Girona, Spain
2024/ ANIMATOR FESTIVAL, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Kino Muza, Poznan, Poland
2024/ Reaktor Wien, Sarbaz World Premiere, Reaktor Wien Foyer, Vienna, Austria
2024/ Waking Life Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Crato, Portugal
2024/ Monstra Animation Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR Festival 2023, Cinema Sao Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
2024/ WFAF festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Varna, Bulgaria
2023/ ZumZeig Arthouse Cinemal, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Barcelona, Spain
2023/ Oak Cliff Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Dallas, US
2023/ The Wrong Biennale, Adam Meets Eve Pavilion, Pneumomania, Virtual Exhibition
2023/ Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Denver, US
2023/ Punto Y Raya Festival, Pneumomania Screening, Lisbon, Portugal
2023/ Antimatter, Moss Grew Screening, Deluge Contemporary Gallery, Victoria, CANADA
2023/ Girona International Film Festival, Moss Grew Screening, Girona, Spain
2023/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Georgia, US
2023/ Austrian Filmfestival, Moss Grew Premiere, Vienna, Austria
2023/ Alexander Studios, Group Exhibition, Backflash Installation, Vancouver, Canada
2021/ Bethanien- Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Video Exhibition of Pneumomania, Berlin, Germany
2021/ Vienna Shorts International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Vienna, Austria
2021/ Casa de Cultura, part of Girona Film Festival, Video Exhibition of Seer & Seen, Girona, Spain
2021/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Seer & Seer Screening, Georgia, US
2021/ Fest Anca International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Slovakia
2021/ Brussels International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Brussels, Belgium
2021/ NEO Shibuya 30 Seconds Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020/ Group Exhibition, Soo Contemporary, Tehran, Iran
2026/ Artist Talk, EMMEDIA Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2026/ Residency at North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commissions, City of North Vancouver
2025/ Residency at North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission, City of North Vancouver
2025-2026/ Workshop: Collage and Augmented Reality , North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commissions
2025/ New Works XR, Workshop Facilitator, Workshop on "XR, Movement, and Sensorial Exploration"
2024/ XR BIPOC Fellowship, Single Thread Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Talk on making Sarbaz, Reaktor Wien, Vienna, Austria
2019/ Author, Horoscope Poetry Series Giesela von Horoskopf, Null Set Theory Online Publication
2018/ Organizer and Producer, Body and Movement Workshop Series, Instructor Ideh Aboutalebi, Tehran, Iran
2011/ Goethe Institute Residency, klossterschule, B2 Candidate, Rossleben, Germany