Photo by Paper Monday, courtesy of Color of Change.
“This year, nineteenth months into the pandemic, I've learned to find a new pace and slower rhythm in my practice. I've learned that some burdens are not meant to be held alone, that in confronting the scarcity complex that encircles ego and unlarning a culture obsessed with single-authorship and hero's journeys, I could share in the abundance and collective healing that comes with co-creating work. With co-creation comes a new methodology for artistic process: one that prioritizes relationships and "moving at the speed of trust," as adrienne maree brown puts it; that is accountable to the community and creates a benefit to them; that grows locally and is rooted in intergenerational community knowledge and expertise; and that is grounded in collective care.”
Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Boundaoui’s debut short film about hijabi hair salons for HBO Documentary films premiered at the 2018 Sundance film Festival. Her award-winning feature-length documentary The Feeling of Being Watched, which investigates a decade of FBI surveillance in the filmmaker’s Muslim American community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was nationally broadcast on the PBS series POV.
Boundaoui was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2018 “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” was a 2019 New America National Fellow, was honored with the Livingston Award for national reporting in 2020, and was awarded a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellowship in 2021. She is currently a fellow in the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, where she is incubating a cocreated, interactive sequel to her film called Inverse Surveillance Project. Boundaoui has an MA in journalism from New York University and is an Algiers-born, Arabic-speaking Amazigh based in Chicago.
Donor -This award was generously supported by the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.12.2024
Assia Boundaoui. From Inverse Surveillance Project.
Photo courtesy of the artist.