Biography

Yasmina Bouziane, is one part of the New York-based filmmakers sister duo of "The Bouziane Sisters", of Moroccan and French background, whose artistic collaboration extends beyond film into photography, video, and writing. Their most recent project, Talking to Stan, a 35mm Black & White short film, was directed by Yasmina, written by Anissa,the other part of the duo, and produced by both sisters. The film tells the story of an Off-Broadway actress who rethinks her life as she confronts the ghost of Stanislavski.

Yasmina Bouziane's video work, which includes, Yellow Nylon Rope, a first prize winner in the neo-ethnographic category at the 1994 Berkley Video Festival, and Imaginary Homelands, has used text, image and performance to explore issues of identity and gender in a cross cultural context-a space, which when referring to the distance between the Arab World and the West, can seem like a "chasm, which nobody can bridge" (as stated by the central figure in Imaginary Homelands).

Le Regard, and Ali Baba: Hollywood and Paris at Their Best are two of Yasmina's videos which are included in her latest installation piece entitled: Inhabited by Imaginings We Did Not Chose.

Yasmina Bouziane's experimental video and documentary work, as well as short fiction film, have been screened world wide. The video Yellow Nylon Rope, 1994 was awarded a first prize at the Berkeley International Video Festival.

She has been in Democratic Republic of Congo for several years working on a number of documentary films covering the current situation and recent crises in the Congo, particularly the humanitarian crisis and the issue of sexual violence committed to women during the war.

Yasmina Bouziane holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography and Video, a Certificate in Film from New York University, a BA from Hampshire College, and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York City. Additionally, she studied art history and film theory at La Sorbonne, in Paris, France.
- IMDb mini biography by: The Bouziane Sisters