About

Maryam Bayani entered the art world by studying Graphic Design at the University of Tehran. Her design, like her filmic language, has been always endeavoring minimalistic aesthetics. Her propensity for storytelling paved the way to her next academic stage in the animation field, where she coupled her artistic visual strength, with her creative narrative style. The Pottery Tale, her first internationally acclaimed short animated film, is an eminent representative of her narrative and aesthetic style in animation. Since 2005, she has been collaborating in professional fictional and non-fictional audio-visual projects, while teaching at the University of Applied Science and Technology, in Iran. In 2015, she won an Erasmus scholarship for her second Master, in Documentary Filmmaking, that allowed her to revive her artistic voice and to do new experiments in filmmaking. Her recent projects show her special perspective towards children, as her main characters, and multiculturalism as the central topic of her films.

Her graduation film, Rainbow Children: Portrait of Elika, premiered in 64th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, and screened in 61st edition of Doc Leipzig in 2018. It won the “Youth Vision Award” from Stanford University, in 21st United Nations Association Film Festival, among other achievements and awards.

Ever since, Maryam is continuing her professional filmmaking and international collaborations, in a new level. With audio-visual artworks, she often crosses and merges boundaries among different fields to utter unique, complex, yet simple stories of life.

Contact

maryambayani@gmail.com