About Us
"With social identity being the overarching theme in their work, they question this theme by playing a layered game with “real” people and “fictional” characters".
Vida Kashani and Amir Komelizadeh have a collaborative artistic practice under the name ‘VidAmir’, that moves from Iran outward to places such as the Netherlands, where they have been living since 2011. VidAmir’s practice encompasses the practices of art, filmmaking, installation, and is united conceptually by interests in poetry, storytelling, archive, and politics which provoke new imaginaries that are equally bound to aesthetics. VidAmir centre collaboration in their practice; they have thus far completed several projects in intensive collaborations with musicians, philosophers, and citizens. With social identity being the overarching theme in their work, they question this theme by playing a layered game with “real” people and “fictional” characters.
Their work has been shown internationally at places such as Millennium film workshop in Brooklyn New York, The Grey Space in Middle in The Hague, Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Het Hem in Zaandam, Noordelijk Film Festival in Leeuwarden, and LLoyd hotel Amsterdam.
Amir Komelizadeh
is an independent filmmaker, photographer, and multimedia visual artist whose work panels across film, installation, photography and 3d works. He has a BA in Time based media from Academy Minerva in Groningen. Interested in multidisciplinary projects, he has also worked on a few projects as a D.O.P for short independent movies. He is fascinated by the transition between motion and stillness. A swinging movement between resistance and receptivity comes into the picture. In those constructed frames born out of colorful and moody lights, he studies the contradictions which define who we are.
Vida Kashani
is an independent filmmaker, writer, multimedia visual artist, and producer based between Amsterdam and Groningen. She has a master’s degree in Arts and Design specialised in Moving Image from the Sandberg institute. She is often inspired by her socio-political encounters, hence is interested in telling untold stories, focusing on issues such as gender, being a woman, and inhabitants of Neoliberal cities. She tells these stories through a poetic approach which stems from her Persian background.