Reflecting on Scandal
Alex Dahdah · Filmmaker
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2021
Work, recognition, education and experience dated 2021.
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Graduate study at SFAI
Graduate studio work, critique, theory and directed study at the San Francisco Art Institute, before completing the MFA at MICA.
Alex Dahdah · MFA Studio Art programme · study at SFAI
Editing and Sequencing · San Francisco Art Institute
Undergraduate photography with Professor Linda Connor.
Alex Dahdah · Graduate Teaching Assistant
Official selection · Jabbara · second edition (2021), held in January 2022.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Production designer
Bayat
Alex Dahdah · Website design, video production & communications
Organization logoOfficial Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
D2D
D2D receives the Prix du Jury
LAU News
LAU recognizes Nour Takieddine’s collection. Alex contributed shared art direction to its film; the award is for the collection and designer.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Shared art direction on the collection’s film
My All
Best Drama Film
Europe Film Festival U.K.
Documented on the film’s FilmFreeway page and poster
- Recognises
- Film / overall work
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Production design & assistant direction
Photography for Bayat
Alex Dahdah · Photographer
Organization logoFirst-Time Filmmaker Sessions
Official Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
what do you remember from the future?
Alex Dahdah · Artist
Faculty Senate Student Representative
Represented students in faculty senate meetings.
Alex Dahdah · Faculty Senate Student Representative
Organization logoGlobal Youth Film Festival
Official Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Performance Lab President
Organised weekly dance and movement-improvisation sessions, and planned and co-choreographed a dance performance.
Alex Dahdah · Performance Lab President
Organization logoHonorable Mention
- Recognises
- Work
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
It’s About Time
- Alex’s role
- Artist
Video Editor
Filmed, edited and archived lectures, organising camera footage, separate audio and presentation materials into a repeatable editing workflow.
Alex Dahdah · Video Editor
Organization logoWeb Editor & Content Producer
Maintained event and academic pages and worked with the Director of Marketing on website structure, navigation and user experience.
Alex Dahdah · Web Editor & Content Producer
Organization logoPrix du Jury — D2D collection
LAU Fashion Design
- Recognises
- Fashion collection & designer
- Collection
- Recipient
- Nour Takieddine
- Alex’s role
- Shared art direction on the collection’s film
Nour Takieddine’s collection received the prize. Alex shared art direction on its film.
Digital Media Producer
Built an in-house filming studio, trained interns, produced videos, photographs and graphics, and contributed to website and social-media updates. The employment period above is recorded in Alex’s career history. The linked case study also includes website captures through September 2022 and videos published in 2021 and 2022; those later dates document the work, not an extended employment period.
Alex Dahdah · Digital Media Producer
Photography for GN Focus
Gulf News / GN Focus
Alex’s portrait of Sam Bayat and Pej Mohyeddin appears on the commercial cover, published February 25, 2021.
Commercial publication · commissioned photography.
- Alex’s role
- Photographer
Organization logo- Recognises
- Graduate-study support
- Recipient
- Alex Dahdah
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Spring Grove Caledonia Film Festival
Official Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Best Student Film
- Recognises
- Film / overall work
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Most Terrifying
- Recognises
- Work
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest
Official Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Organization logoBest Actress
Documented on the film’s FilmFreeway page and poster
- Recognises
- Acting
- Work
- Recipient
- Individual not established
- Alex’s role
- Production design & assistant direction
Watersprite Film Festival
Official Selection
Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.
- Work
- Alex’s role
- Director & screenwriter
Graduate Critique Seminar
Group critique of developing artwork, with discussion of conceptual and material decisions, readings and presentations.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course
Graduate Lecture Series
A programme of visiting-artist and practitioner lectures, recorded across Alex’s three SFAI study terms.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Lecture series
Graduate Tutorial
Individual tutorial study supporting the development of an independent graduate art practice.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course
Inside the Artist’s Studio
A graduate course centred on the artist’s studio and practice. Further detail on the specific syllabus is still being confirmed.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course
It’s About Time
A seminar on time and artistic form. Alex’s retained work includes an analysis of nonlinear narrative and the relationship between chronology and a viewer’s understanding.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course
Sculpture in Context: Monuments
A graduate seminar placing sculpture in the context of monuments. Further detail on the specific syllabus is still being confirmed.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course
Teaching Assistantship
Alex supported Linda Connor’s Editing and Sequencing course as a teaching assistant. This was a teaching appointment recorded alongside his graduate study.
Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Teaching assistantship
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