BIOGRAPHY

Dora Benderra (born 7/24/1990 in Algiers, Algeria) is a french-algerian artist, videographer and filmmaker based in Paris, France.

She expresses herself through film, video, sound, digital art, drawing, sculpture and installation. Her research is based on cultural syncretism, prospective and worldbuilding, and summons references to science, science-fiction, hauntology, biomorphism, russian constructivism, gothic art, north-/african and native american arts.

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TRAINING

2019 : Communication/Film studies license - Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal/Tio'tià:ke, Kebek)

2017 : MFA - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris, France)

2015 : Film production certificate (Erasmus scholarship) - Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (Halifax/K'jipuktuk, Nova Scotia/M'ikma'ki)

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GROUP SHOWS

2018 : FELICITÀ 18 - Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2018 : THIS IS NOT A GUERRILLA - Curators : Luna Restrepo & Hélène Capet-Kamel, Espace Pop, Montreal/Tio'tià:ke, Kebek

2016 : MOMENT GREC/OLA KALA !/TOUT VA BIEN ! - C.A.C. de Saint-Restitut, France

2014 : MOMENT GREC - Historical & Folklore Museum of Aegina, Greece

2014 : PSYCHIC TV - DREAMS LESS SWEET (invited video artist, collective film) - Curator : Sam Zimmerman - Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United-States - Link

2013 : DÉSIRS DE LIENS - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2012 : JE VOUS IMAGINE TEL QUE VOUS ÊTES - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2012 : EXTREME SPIRIT 2012 - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2011 : HYBRIDES - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

SOLO SHOWS

2017 : SEDNA - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2014 : WE WALK WITHOUT ECHO - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

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AWARDS

2021-22 : ACTON VALE (short film, 2020) :

Award Winner - CANADASHORTS 2021

Award Winner - Best Cinematography - Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival (AIMAFF) 2022

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PUBLICATIONS

2023 : FREEDOM (digital image, 3D animation), for « Drones and International Law : A Techno-Legal Machinery » (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi

2012 : QUADRATIC ISLAND (installation, 3D animation, 2012), in Manuel Fanzine - « Existe-t-île ? » - Curator : Chloé Curci