Behzad Noori Khosravi

KHOSRAVI

NOORI

Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher & Educator

About

About

Behzad Khosravi Noori is an artist, filmmaker, history-teller, educator and concept-maker whose practice moves between historical evidence and artistic speculation. Working with archives, moving images, objects and collective pedagogies, he investigates what remained possible within what happened. His projects return to interrupted histories, displaced objects, minor lives and failed internationalisms as sites where unrealised futures might still be perceived. Through hyper-politics, microhistory, necromancy and Brieftopia, his work tests the political and ethical limits of speculation. Two questions remain central: Can art save us? What happens to art when it crosses borders?

Current Research

Incomplete Futurity

Brieftopia names temporary historical configurations in which an imagined possibility acquired enough material form to become tangible, yet remained incomplete.

The project develops through films, exhibitions, editorial work, curatorial practice and collective research. It asks how interrupted possibilities can become perceptible in the present without being presented as recovered truths.

Selected Works

Film, Installation & Artistic Research

Brieftopia, Three or More Fools

A speculative film essay structured as a letter to Iranian cartoonist Kambiz Derambakhsh, bringing archival drawings, childhood memory and the political conditions of war into a fragile Brieftopian relation.

The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole

2017–ongoingArchival research, photography, installation and artistic publication The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole begins with a photographic archive created by Gholamreza Amirbegi, Noori’s grandfather, in southwest Tehran between 1956 and 1968. Working as an itinerant photographer, Amirbegi portrayed families, workers and neighbourhood life during a period of rapid urban expansion. Many of the...

On the Dermis of History

2017–2021Film essay, 23 min 21 sec, Persian and English, colour, stereo On the Dermis of History begins with the Palestine Monument at the intersection of Felestin and Talaghani Streets in central Tehran. Designed by Nader Qashghaie and inaugurated in 1990, the bronze-and-cement sculpture commemorates the Palestinian struggle and the First Intifada. It was the first...

Experiences

Artistic Re-search

Brioni: A Necromantic Theatre with Paul Kupelwieser and Josip Broz Tito

A collaborative film essay that approaches Brijuni through animal diplomacy, microhistory and the necromantic activation of historical remains.

KHOSRAVI

NOORI

Artist & Researcher