Born in November 1991 in Tehran, Sahand Sarhaddi graduated in theatre and dramatic literature from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 2015. His artistic work focuses on integrating untold stories into history, photography, music, and literature.
He has held more than ten solo and group exhibitions of visual arts and has directed two short and feature films that have been screened in Iran, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Croatia, Switzerland, Greece, Egypt, and the United States. He was awarded the Berlinale Talents 2023 for his film “Fragments of a Revolution” (Sahneye Tarikh).
He joined the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association (IRDFA) in 2020 and is currently a member of its board of directors.
En 2024, he was laureat of the Pepinières Emergences Videos prize during the International Video Competition at the 2024 Videoformes festival for his work “Slaughter,” created in 2023.
Slaughter (Besmel), Sahand Sarhaddi, 2023, Irlande/Angleterre
This conceptual montage of audio and visual archives transforms a historical document into an allegorical and plastic manifesto that resurrects the spirit of the time.
The work explores the archives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, depicting a symbolic narrative around the ritual of animal sacrifice, called “Besmel.”
An allegorical representation of national sacrifice amidst political transformations.
VIDEOFORMES (Fr)
Trend Observatory, laboratory, producer, and disseminator of emerging art forms in which digital technologies and poetry shape possible worlds, VIDEOFORMES organizes an annual international festival of hybrid and digital arts in Clermont-Ferrand and reports on the effervescence of multifaceted creations: installations, videos, performances, virtual realities...
Within the event, dynamic encounters with various professionals are open as part of the Digital Acts and address artistic, cultural, and societal themes.
Since 1986, the year of the first festival, VIDEOFORMES has attracted the greatest names in video art and digital arts: Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Ed Emschwiller, Robert Cahen, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, John Sanborn, Jacques-Louis and Danielle Nyst, Michel Jaffrenou, Klaus vom Bruch, Bruce Nauman, Thierry Kuntzel, Studio Azzurro, Juan Downey, Ko Nakajima, Gianni Toti, Reynold Reynolds, Catherine Ikam, Alain Fleischer, Tania Mouraud, Grégory Chatonsky, Miguel Chevalier...
In the same spirit of disseminating innovative art, VIDEOFORMES welcomes many young artists and has presented the first works of artists such as Pierrick Sorin, Rosangela Renno, Lucas Bambozzi, Golnaz Behrouznia, Mihai Grecu, Hee Won Lee, Momoko Seto, Benjamin Nuel, Philipp Artus, Gabriel Mascaro, Fanny Bauguil, Samuel Rousseau, Boris Labbé...
VIDEOFORMES hosts artists in residence every year, participates in national and international cultural events, offers a program of multidisciplinary experimental performances (VIDEOBARS), a digital magazine (Turbulences Vidéo | Digital and Hybrid Arts), digital archives, and a program of actions in Artistic and Cultural Education.
