Zia Anger

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Known For Director

Gender Female

Zia Anger

Biography

Zia Anger works in moving images. In 2018 she began touring a new solo performance that traces the last ten-years of her lost and abandoned work, titled MY FIRST FILM. The performance was named by The New Yorker as one of the “Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.” Her most recent short MY LAST FILM premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival. In 2015 her short I REMEMBER NOTHING had its world premiere at New Directors/New Films and its international premiere at Festival del film Locarno. She has made music videos for various artists including: Mitski, Beach House, Maggie Rogers, and Jenny Hval; the latter of whom she also toured with - as a performer and stage director. Her work has been written about in various publications including: The New Yorker, Cléo, The New York Times, Mubi, Cinemascope, and Filmmaker Magazine. In 2016 Zia participated in the Sundance Institutes Screenwriter's Intensive. In 2015 Zia was included in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" issue. She is a 2015 fellow in film/video from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her short film LOVER BOY. BA/BS Ithaca College; MFA School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.

Known For

Director

2024
My First Film

as Director

2018
My First Film

as Director

2015
My Last Film

as Director

2015
I Remember Nothing

as Director

2008
Lover Boy

as Director

Actor

2024
2023
Manodrome

as Alice

2017
Let Me Die a Nun

as Novice Mistress

2009

Writer

2024
My First Film

as Writer

2018
My First Film

as Writer

2015
2015
My Last Film

as Writer

Producer

2008
Lover Boy

as Producer

Editor

2015
My Last Film

as Editor