Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Fall 2024:

Saif Alsaegh, Selected Works, 58 min.

Thursday, October 24, 2024, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 pm, Free Admission

Saif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals and venues including Cinéma du Réel, Kurzfilm Hamburg, Kassel Dokfest, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Gene Siskel Film Center. Alsaegh’s films are distributed by Video Data Bank. Alsaegh has received several fellowships and residencies including at Flaherty Film Seminar and the Ucross Foundation. He has an MFA in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Alsaegh is lecturer of film production at California State University, Fullerton.