Zia Anger

Born: None

Zia Anger works in moving images. In 2018 she began touring a new solo performance that traces the last ten-years of her lost and abandoned work, titled MY FIRST FILM. The performance was named by The New Yorker as one of the “Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.” Her most recent short MY LAST FILM premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival. In 2015 her short I REMEMBER NOTHING had its world premiere at New Directors/New Films and its international premiere at Festival del film Locarno. She has made music videos for various artists including: Mitski, Beach House, Maggie Rogers, and Jenny Hval; the latter of whom she also toured with - as a performer and stage director. Her work has been written about in various publications including: The New Yorker, Cléo, The New York Times, Mubi, Cinemascope, and Filmmaker Magazine. In 2016 Zia participated in the Sundance Institutes Screenwriter's Intensive. In 2015 Zia was included in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" issue. She is a 2015 fellow in film/video from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her short film LOVER BOY. BA/BS Ithaca College; MFA School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.


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Manodrome

as Alice
Released: 2023-11-10

Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian...

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My First Film

as Zia
Released: 2024-08-30

A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior....

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Notes on an Appearance

as uncredited
Released: 2018-02-21

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of...

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My First Film

as uncredited
Released: 2018-11-03

A feature-length multimedia performance in which filmmaker Zia Anger interacts with media on...

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The Show About the Show

as Ashley
First aired: 2015-10-06

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a...

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Let Me Die a Nun

as Novice Mistress
First aired: 2017-02-07

A six part series about a lesbian nun and her Jewish stalker.

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