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Taj Irzhavsky

Direction Of Photography, Film Editor, Cinematography, Media Artist, Artist

• About Me

  Taj Irzhavsky (they/them) 

  ☄︎ visual artist ☄︎ video artist ☄︎ experimental documentary filmmaker ☄︎ DoP

  living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany

  
  

  Education

  2022                  Diplom Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

  2019                  Meisterschüler*in / master student of Prof. Rita McBride

  2019 - 2021      MFA School of Visual Arts, New York

  2013 - 2022      Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

  
  

  Grants

  2023 Social Fiction (Collaboration), sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf and the Art and Culture Foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf (GER)

  2022 NRW Artists' scholarship, Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (GER)

  2021 SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT 11th Annual SocDoc Thesis Showcase, New York (USA)

  2019 PROMOS DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for New York (GER)

  2018 PROMOS DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for New York

  2017 Tilly Baker Roefls Artist Grant (GER)

  2017 ARTAGON Award, Paris (FR)
  

  2016 Honorable mention at Hogan Lovells Kunstförderpreis, Nominated (GER)

  2015 Film-Labor Scholarship, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (GER)
  

  Interests

  Non Fiction, Art Cinema, Experimental Film Art And Documentary, Experimental Film, Documentaries

  Skills

  Editing (Avid Media Composer), Color Correction, Sound Mixing, Camera Operation, Camera, Cinematography