About
PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR, & RYAN FERKO have worked in collaboration since 2013. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures.
PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR, & RYAN FERKO have worked in collaboration since 2013. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures.
Over the last five years, the Toronto-based trio of Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko has brought their diasporic experiences to bear on a series of unique and fascinating projects for both the gallery and the cinema. Foregrounding place as a central aspect of their practice, the artists present location — whether it be Berlin, Taipei, Belgrade, Windsor, a village in Iran, or Cathedraltown in Markham — as cipher, and their work seeks to both decode these surroundings and trouble the image through speculative narration and dialectical imagery, which often oscillates between archival material and evocative location shooting.
–Chris Kennedy, TIFF
Communication is Masochism: an interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko by Alexandra Gelis and Mike Hoolboom Feb. 4, 2018: http://mikehoolboom.com/?p=19920
Contact: parastoo.faraz.ryan@gmail.com
Recent
Lovers’ Wind, Mercer Union, Toronto, Jan 20–Mar 23, 2024: https://www.mercerunion.org/exhibitions/lovers-wind
Chooka, ELSE Screening Series, Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 23, 2024
Bunte Kuh, To Agree With Nothing Your Neighbors Say Is Lonely program, curated by Ben Balcom, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA, Mar 7, 2024
Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/
Heart of a Mountain, Like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep, curated by Joud Al-Tamimi, Askhal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2023: https://aashra.ashkalalwan.org/like-a-lurch-of-earth
Surface Rites, Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023: https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/
Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/
Chooka, Rememberings program, curated by Maryam Tafakory, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, UK, Jan 28, 2023: https://www.ica.art/films/maryam-tafakory-iranian-short-films
Chooka & Beach, Films from Iran for Iran, online program by Another Screen, London, UK, Dec-Jan 2022: https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran
Bite & Hold, Before Law, ONLINE, launched Nov 2022: https://before-law.com/projects/bite-and-hold
Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA, Nov 2023
Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, MoMA Sculpture Garden, NYC, USA, Aug 17, 2022: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8061
Surface Rites, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal, July 2022: https://www.festival.curtas.pt/en/film/fc-42/
Continents of Drifting Clouds, 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, featured artists, curated by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, June 25-July 1, 2022: https://theflaherty.org/2022-seminar-online
Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, EXIS, Seoul, South Korea, June 2022
Bunte Kuh, Through the Lens, Gallery Sham, Tehran, Iran, June 2022
Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2022
Surface Rites, Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France & Berlin, Germany, May 2022
Surface Rites, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), April 20-24, 2022: https://www.emaf.de/work/?id=35886
Surface Rites, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Feb 10-20, 2022:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202205560
Surface Rites, Media City Film Festival, 25th Anniversary Virtual Edition, Feb 8- Mar 1, 2022:
https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/
Charity, web-documetary, National Film Board of Canada:
https://charity.nfb.ca
Greater Toronto Art 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Sept 2021-Jan 2022: https://moca.ca/gta2021-home/
Radiant Temperature of Openings, Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ON
August 28 - November 20, 2021
http://www.theinc.ca/exhibitions/radiant-temperature/
Chooka, Presented online for free by Visions (Montreal), featuring a comissioned essay by André Habib: https://lalumierecollective.org/2020/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-et-ryan-ferko/
Chooka, ELSE Screening Series, Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 23, 2024
Bunte Kuh, To Agree With Nothing Your Neighbors Say Is Lonely program, curated by Ben Balcom, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA, Mar 7, 2024
Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/
Heart of a Mountain, Like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep, curated by Joud Al-Tamimi, Askhal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2023: https://aashra.ashkalalwan.org/like-a-lurch-of-earth
Surface Rites, Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023: https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/
Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/
Chooka, Rememberings program, curated by Maryam Tafakory, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, UK, Jan 28, 2023: https://www.ica.art/films/maryam-tafakory-iranian-short-films
Chooka & Beach, Films from Iran for Iran, online program by Another Screen, London, UK, Dec-Jan 2022: https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran
Bite & Hold, Before Law, ONLINE, launched Nov 2022: https://before-law.com/projects/bite-and-hold
Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA, Nov 2023
Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, MoMA Sculpture Garden, NYC, USA, Aug 17, 2022: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8061
Surface Rites, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal, July 2022: https://www.festival.curtas.pt/en/film/fc-42/
Continents of Drifting Clouds, 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, featured artists, curated by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, June 25-July 1, 2022: https://theflaherty.org/2022-seminar-online
Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, EXIS, Seoul, South Korea, June 2022
Bunte Kuh, Through the Lens, Gallery Sham, Tehran, Iran, June 2022
Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2022
Surface Rites, Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France & Berlin, Germany, May 2022
Surface Rites, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), April 20-24, 2022: https://www.emaf.de/work/?id=35886
Surface Rites, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Feb 10-20, 2022:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202205560
Surface Rites, Media City Film Festival, 25th Anniversary Virtual Edition, Feb 8- Mar 1, 2022:
https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/
Charity, web-documetary, National Film Board of Canada:
https://charity.nfb.ca
Greater Toronto Art 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Sept 2021-Jan 2022: https://moca.ca/gta2021-home/
Radiant Temperature of Openings, Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ON
August 28 - November 20, 2021
http://www.theinc.ca/exhibitions/radiant-temperature/
Chooka, Presented online for free by Visions (Montreal), featuring a comissioned essay by André Habib: https://lalumierecollective.org/2020/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-et-ryan-ferko/
If All That Changes Quickly, screening online through February 2021, presented by WET Film (Rotterdam), featuring an audio interview: http://wetfilm.org/portfolio/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-if-all-that-changed-quickly/
If All That Changes Quickly, in Estudiotik at 5, Tabakalera Centre for International Culture, San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain, Feb 26 - May 9, 2021: https://www.tabakalera.eus/en/estudiotik-5-years-creation
Arriving Elsewhere, live online performance, presented by Mercer Union as part of their Isthmus collaborative research commission, Nov 15, 2020: https://www.mercerunion.org/events/isthmus-2020-live/
Arriving Elsewhere, online residency, part of Mercer Union’s Isthmus collaborative research commission with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Batool Elhennawy, Ryan Ferko, Batoul Ibrahim, Bayan Kiwan, Mahshid Rafiei, Kari Leigh Rosenfeld, Mounir Soussan, Francisco Rodríguez Teare, Merve Ünsal: https://www.mercerunion.org/isthmus-summer-2020/
Screening
Heart of a Mountain, curated programme Making Kin(o) by Tzuan Wu, The Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Feb 6, 2021: https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/making-kino-自主放映祭-vol-1Online Program
Chooka, Heart of a Mountain, Bunte Kuh in Thousandsuns Cinema, presented by Media City Film Festival (Online), Windsor, Canada, Dec 2 - 23, 2020: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/ Online Program
Chooka, Visions Microcinema and Hors Champ, Montreal, Canada, Oct 28 - Dec 31, 2020 (extended and ongoing): https://lalumierecollective.org/2020/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-et-ryan-ferko//Online programme
Bunte Kuh, programmed by Madeline Bogoch as part of Vtape Curatorial Incubator Series, Sept 25, 2020:
Bunte Kuh, programmed by Madeline Bogoch as part of Vtape Curatorial Incubator Series, Sept 25, 2020:
https://www.vtape.org/event/c-i-v-16-living-in-hope
Solo programme
Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko, Chrysalis Showcase, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Feb 15, 2020: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/chrysalis-fellowship/
Solo programme
What the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Microlights, Milwaukee, USA, Sept 29, 2019, info: http://microlightscinema.com/
Festival screening
Chooka, Eureka University Film Festival, Bogota, Columbia, Sept 15 & Sept 17, 2019, info: https://www.eurekacine.com/home
Screening
Chooka, special program curated by Christina Battle, Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, Canada, July 20, 2019, info: http://www.fabfilmfest.ca/schedule.html
Festival screening
Chooka, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 25, 2019, info: https://www.emaf.de/en/Register.html#artist-397-work-588
Residency & Workshop
Arriving Elsewhere, collaborative film workshop led by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, presented by Spring Sessions, Amman & Wadi Rum, Jordan, Apr 15–23, 2019, info: http://www.springsessions.org/happenings/opencall246?edition=edition2019-en
Group exhibition
Silos, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada, March 2019, info: https://www.artfifa.com/en/movies/in-praesentia-in-absentia
Festival screening
Chooka, Punto de Vista International Documentary Festival, Pamplona, Spain, Mar 11–16, 2019, info: http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ultima_edicion.asp?IdSeccion=106
Performance & screening
beach & Chooka, Tabakalera Centre for International Culture, San Sebastian, Spain, Mar 12, 2019, info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/solasaldia-3
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Respondent Series Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly, Plugin ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, Mar 6, 2019, info:https://plugin.org/exhibitions/screening-bonjour-aux-amis-de-calamite-curated-by-jean-paul-kelly-as-part-of-our-respondent-series/
Installation
Lives & Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow & Mani Mazinani, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Feb 23, 2019
Screening
Lives & Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow & Mani Mazinani, The Horse Hospital, London, UK, Feb 19, 2019
Festival screening
Chooka, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, U.A.E., Jan 24, 2019, info: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/sharjah-film-platform-programme-23
Solo programme
What the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths year-round programming, Dec 4, 2018, info: https://www.tiff.net/events/what-the-complete-image-could-be-works-by-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko/
Performance
Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, performance presented by Mercer Union, Toronto, part of In Studio series, No 28, 2018, info:
http://www.mercerunion.org/events/in-studio-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-2/
Screening
Chooka, Duke University, Durham, USA, Nov 12, 2018: https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/lift-presents-the-madvo-collection-commissioning-project/
Festival screening
Chooka, Viennale, Nov 8, 2018, info: https://www.viennale.at/de/film/chooka
Festival screening
Chooka, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Nov 10, 2018, info: http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff23/international-competition-4/
Festival screening
Chooka, Projections, New York Film Festival, New York City, USA, Oct 6 & 7, 2018, info:https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/films/program-3-trips-to-the-interior/
Screening
Chooka, Cinema Multiversal 3, Lisbon, Portugal, Curated by Ana Vaz, Sept 30, 2018, info: soon
Group exhibition
Contact Landings, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Jul 20 – Sept 16, 2018, info: https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/thames-art-gallery/current-upcoming-exhibitions/contact-landing(s)
Performance & Workshop
beach, Mercer Union, Toronto,Jun 3, 2018, Info: https://www.mercerunion.org/events/session/
Festival screening
Chooka, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun 26 & Jul 1, 2018, info:https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/2018/chooka
Screening - Solo Program
Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Convivio, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 11, 2018, info:https://www.facebook.com/events/1954340078214797/
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Fronteira Festival, Goiânia, Brazil, Apr 14, 2018, info:http://www.fronteirafestival.com/pt/filme/coracao-da-montanha-heart-of-a-mountain
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 19, 2018, info:https://www.emaf.de/de/Timetable.html
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Peripheral Visions Film Festival, New York City, Apr 21, 2018, info: https://qubitmusic.com/visions
Screening
Chooka, Jacques Madvo Commissioning Project, Revue Cinema, Toronto, Jan 23, 2018, info: https://lift.ca/programming/lift-debuts-films-artist-commission-madvo-collection
Residency
Tabakalera Centre of International Culture, San Sebastián, Spain, September & October, 2017, project info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/artists-space/artistic-residencies/residents
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Toronto International Film Festival, Sept 10, 2017, info: https://www.tiff.net/tiff/heart-of-a-mountain/?v=heart-of-a-mountain
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Trinity Square Video at Big on Bloor Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 27, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/screening-big-on-bloor-2017/
Exhibition
Heart of a Mountain, TAV Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, May 26-June 18, 2017, Info soon
Exhibition
Day Tours Into the Wild, 8eleven at Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 20–25, 2017, info:https://platformsproject.com/platforms/8eleven/
Residency
Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, April - June 2017, project info: http://www.artistvillage.org/artist-detail.php?p=3933
Exhibition
of movement and dwelling, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, January 13 – March 11, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/of-movement-and-dwelling/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Nocturnal Reflections, Milan, Italy, March 8, 2017, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467674929940657/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural Casa Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 13, 2016, info:
http://ccmatienzo.com.ar/wp/events/festival-canadian-contemporary-media-art/
Solo exhibition
Signal to Babble (The Hum), in collaboration with Felix Kalmenson, SPACES & The Sculpture Centre, Cleveland, USA, November 11 – December 17, 2016, info: https://www.spacesgallery.org/project/the-hum
Exhibition
Like an Old Friend, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, September 9 – October 15, 2016, info: https://gallery44.org/exhibitions/old-friend
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Schalten und Walten, Colgone, Germany, October 14, 2016, info:http://www.schaltenwalten.com/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, UNEXPOSED Microcinema, Durham, NC, September 30, 2016, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1100316100004635/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, September 28, 2016, info: https://www.wndx.org/event/shorts-program-family-scrapbook/?instance_id=1459
Screening
Bunte Kuh, La Lumière, Montreal, September 1, 2016, info: https://www.visionsmtl.com/northern-light.html
Exhibition
Silos, Luminato Festival, Hearn Generating Station, Toronto, June 10-26, 2016, info: https://luminatofestival.com/2016-Program/Events/YTB-Gallery-Exhibition
Artist Talk
Radiant Temperature of Openings, Image/Interface Symposium, Toronto, May 13, 2016, info: https://imageinterface2016.wordpress.com/panels-and-presenters/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, May 9, 2016: https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/?id=1736#c31595
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, CineCycle, Toronto, March 5, 2016, info: http://pdome.org/2015/minority-report-films-of-colonization-and-abandonment-of-land/
Touring programme
Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival touring program, various cities Mexico, February 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, USA, March 5, 2016, info: https://www.onioncity.org/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Northwest Film Centre, Portland, USA, February 23, 2016, info: https://cinemaproject.org/archive/screenings/2016/spring/short-cuts-vii-space-time-being
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural ALIAC, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19, 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Februrary 2016, info: https://iffr.com/en/professionals/blog/as-long-as-it-takes-2016-short-film-selection
Solo exhibition
Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, December 9 - December 27, 2015, info: http://8eleven.org/radiant-temperature-of-openings-a-prologue/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival de Video y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico, December 4, 2015, info: http://codecfestival.mx/page/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Experimenta Festival of Moving Image Art, Bangalore, India, November 28, 2015, info: https://experimenta.in/?page_id=2295
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, November 6, 2015, info: https://www.mothlightmicrocinema.org/minority-report/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Antimatter Media Arts, Victoria, Canada, October 21, 2015, Info: https://www.antimatter.ws/1021.html
Festival Screening
Bunte Kuh, Projections, New York Film Festival, October 4, 2015, info: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/daily/lineup-announced-for-projections-at-nyff53/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Green Park, Athens, Greece, Presented by Sound Development City, September 24, 2015
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 12, 2015, info: https://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/wavelengths/bunte-kuh
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, September 18, 2015, info: https://www.haverhillexperimental.org/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Media City Film Festival, Windsor & Detroit, July 28 - August 1, 2015, info: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff21/international-program-7/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, April 10-12, 2015
Exhibition
PATH, Art Souterrain Festival / Nuit Blanche, Montreal, February 28 - March 31, 2015, info: http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/r.-ferko-f.-anoushahpour-p.-anoushahpour/
Group exhibition
Openhaus Screenings, ZK/U Centre for Art & Urbanistics, Berlin, September 9, 2014 & October 23, 2014, Project information:https://www.zku-berlin.org/residencies/119/ // Part I:https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-25092014/ // Part II: https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-23102014/
Solo programme
Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, & Ryan Ferko, Chrysalis Showcase, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Feb 15, 2020: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/chrysalis-fellowship/
Solo programme
What the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Microlights, Milwaukee, USA, Sept 29, 2019, info: http://microlightscinema.com/
Festival screening
Chooka, Eureka University Film Festival, Bogota, Columbia, Sept 15 & Sept 17, 2019, info: https://www.eurekacine.com/home
Screening
Chooka, special program curated by Christina Battle, Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, Canada, July 20, 2019, info: http://www.fabfilmfest.ca/schedule.html
Festival screening
Chooka, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 25, 2019, info: https://www.emaf.de/en/Register.html#artist-397-work-588
Residency & Workshop
Arriving Elsewhere, collaborative film workshop led by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, presented by Spring Sessions, Amman & Wadi Rum, Jordan, Apr 15–23, 2019, info: http://www.springsessions.org/happenings/opencall246?edition=edition2019-en
Group exhibition
Silos, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada, March 2019, info: https://www.artfifa.com/en/movies/in-praesentia-in-absentia
Festival screening
Chooka, Punto de Vista International Documentary Festival, Pamplona, Spain, Mar 11–16, 2019, info: http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ultima_edicion.asp?IdSeccion=106
Performance & screening
beach & Chooka, Tabakalera Centre for International Culture, San Sebastian, Spain, Mar 12, 2019, info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/solasaldia-3
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Respondent Series Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly, Plugin ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, Mar 6, 2019, info:https://plugin.org/exhibitions/screening-bonjour-aux-amis-de-calamite-curated-by-jean-paul-kelly-as-part-of-our-respondent-series/
Installation
Lives & Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow & Mani Mazinani, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Feb 23, 2019
Screening
Lives & Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow & Mani Mazinani, The Horse Hospital, London, UK, Feb 19, 2019
Festival screening
Chooka, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, U.A.E., Jan 24, 2019, info: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/sharjah-film-platform-programme-23
Solo programme
What the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths year-round programming, Dec 4, 2018, info: https://www.tiff.net/events/what-the-complete-image-could-be-works-by-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko/
Performance
Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, performance presented by Mercer Union, Toronto, part of In Studio series, No 28, 2018, info:
http://www.mercerunion.org/events/in-studio-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-2/
Screening
Chooka, Duke University, Durham, USA, Nov 12, 2018: https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/lift-presents-the-madvo-collection-commissioning-project/
Festival screening
Chooka, Viennale, Nov 8, 2018, info: https://www.viennale.at/de/film/chooka
Festival screening
Chooka, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Nov 10, 2018, info: http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff23/international-competition-4/
Festival screening
Chooka, Projections, New York Film Festival, New York City, USA, Oct 6 & 7, 2018, info:https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/films/program-3-trips-to-the-interior/
Screening
Chooka, Cinema Multiversal 3, Lisbon, Portugal, Curated by Ana Vaz, Sept 30, 2018, info: soon
Group exhibition
Contact Landings, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Jul 20 – Sept 16, 2018, info: https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/thames-art-gallery/current-upcoming-exhibitions/contact-landing(s)
Performance & Workshop
beach, Mercer Union, Toronto,Jun 3, 2018, Info: https://www.mercerunion.org/events/session/
Festival screening
Chooka, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun 26 & Jul 1, 2018, info:https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/2018/chooka
Screening - Solo Program
Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Convivio, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 11, 2018, info:https://www.facebook.com/events/1954340078214797/
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Fronteira Festival, Goiânia, Brazil, Apr 14, 2018, info:http://www.fronteirafestival.com/pt/filme/coracao-da-montanha-heart-of-a-mountain
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 19, 2018, info:https://www.emaf.de/de/Timetable.html
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Peripheral Visions Film Festival, New York City, Apr 21, 2018, info: https://qubitmusic.com/visions
Screening
Chooka, Jacques Madvo Commissioning Project, Revue Cinema, Toronto, Jan 23, 2018, info: https://lift.ca/programming/lift-debuts-films-artist-commission-madvo-collection
Residency
Tabakalera Centre of International Culture, San Sebastián, Spain, September & October, 2017, project info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/artists-space/artistic-residencies/residents
Festival screening
Heart of a Mountain, Toronto International Film Festival, Sept 10, 2017, info: https://www.tiff.net/tiff/heart-of-a-mountain/?v=heart-of-a-mountain
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Trinity Square Video at Big on Bloor Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 27, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/screening-big-on-bloor-2017/
Exhibition
Heart of a Mountain, TAV Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, May 26-June 18, 2017, Info soon
Exhibition
Day Tours Into the Wild, 8eleven at Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 20–25, 2017, info:https://platformsproject.com/platforms/8eleven/
Residency
Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, April - June 2017, project info: http://www.artistvillage.org/artist-detail.php?p=3933
Exhibition
of movement and dwelling, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, January 13 – March 11, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/of-movement-and-dwelling/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Nocturnal Reflections, Milan, Italy, March 8, 2017, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467674929940657/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural Casa Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 13, 2016, info:
http://ccmatienzo.com.ar/wp/events/festival-canadian-contemporary-media-art/
Solo exhibition
Signal to Babble (The Hum), in collaboration with Felix Kalmenson, SPACES & The Sculpture Centre, Cleveland, USA, November 11 – December 17, 2016, info: https://www.spacesgallery.org/project/the-hum
Exhibition
Like an Old Friend, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, September 9 – October 15, 2016, info: https://gallery44.org/exhibitions/old-friend
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Schalten und Walten, Colgone, Germany, October 14, 2016, info:http://www.schaltenwalten.com/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, UNEXPOSED Microcinema, Durham, NC, September 30, 2016, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1100316100004635/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, September 28, 2016, info: https://www.wndx.org/event/shorts-program-family-scrapbook/?instance_id=1459
Screening
Bunte Kuh, La Lumière, Montreal, September 1, 2016, info: https://www.visionsmtl.com/northern-light.html
Exhibition
Silos, Luminato Festival, Hearn Generating Station, Toronto, June 10-26, 2016, info: https://luminatofestival.com/2016-Program/Events/YTB-Gallery-Exhibition
Artist Talk
Radiant Temperature of Openings, Image/Interface Symposium, Toronto, May 13, 2016, info: https://imageinterface2016.wordpress.com/panels-and-presenters/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, May 9, 2016: https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/?id=1736#c31595
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, CineCycle, Toronto, March 5, 2016, info: http://pdome.org/2015/minority-report-films-of-colonization-and-abandonment-of-land/
Touring programme
Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival touring program, various cities Mexico, February 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, USA, March 5, 2016, info: https://www.onioncity.org/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Northwest Film Centre, Portland, USA, February 23, 2016, info: https://cinemaproject.org/archive/screenings/2016/spring/short-cuts-vii-space-time-being
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural ALIAC, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19, 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Februrary 2016, info: https://iffr.com/en/professionals/blog/as-long-as-it-takes-2016-short-film-selection
Solo exhibition
Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, December 9 - December 27, 2015, info: http://8eleven.org/radiant-temperature-of-openings-a-prologue/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival de Video y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico, December 4, 2015, info: http://codecfestival.mx/page/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Experimenta Festival of Moving Image Art, Bangalore, India, November 28, 2015, info: https://experimenta.in/?page_id=2295
Screening
There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, November 6, 2015, info: https://www.mothlightmicrocinema.org/minority-report/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Antimatter Media Arts, Victoria, Canada, October 21, 2015, Info: https://www.antimatter.ws/1021.html
Festival Screening
Bunte Kuh, Projections, New York Film Festival, October 4, 2015, info: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/daily/lineup-announced-for-projections-at-nyff53/
Screening
Bunte Kuh, Green Park, Athens, Greece, Presented by Sound Development City, September 24, 2015
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 12, 2015, info: https://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/wavelengths/bunte-kuh
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, September 18, 2015, info: https://www.haverhillexperimental.org/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Media City Film Festival, Windsor & Detroit, July 28 - August 1, 2015, info: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff21/international-program-7/
Festival screening
Bunte Kuh, Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, April 10-12, 2015
Exhibition
PATH, Art Souterrain Festival / Nuit Blanche, Montreal, February 28 - March 31, 2015, info: http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/r.-ferko-f.-anoushahpour-p.-anoushahpour/
Group exhibition
Openhaus Screenings, ZK/U Centre for Art & Urbanistics, Berlin, September 9, 2014 & October 23, 2014, Project information:https://www.zku-berlin.org/residencies/119/ // Part I:https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-25092014/ // Part II: https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-23102014/
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Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko