A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari is a filmmaker and artist born in Ramla in 1972. His work is largely affiliated with the world of documentary, although he employs a variety of different procedures and formats that position the visual arts in dialogue with essay films and experimental cinema. One of the hallmarks of his process lies in the manipulation of images in an attempt to extrapolate their figurative nature, as with his treatment of domestic surveillance footage. Aljafari received an MFA from Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2003. A full retrospective of his work to date was held at IndieLisboa in 2024. Aljafari has taught at The New School in New York and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. He has received a fellowship from the Film Study Center and Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and is currently a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia University (2024–25). He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.