Tamer El Said
- Position: Associate Professor of Practice in Filmmaking
- Department: Department of the Arts
Tamer El Said is a filmmaker, writer, and producer with more than 25 years of experience in film practice. His filmography includes 17 titles, between documentaries, shorts, and feature films. His films have received more than 60 local and international awards and have been invited to more than 400 film festivals worldwide. El Said has a long experience in teaching cinema and mentoring film-related workshops in collaboration with many local and international institutes. He studied journalism at Cairo University and filmmaking at High Cinema Institute, where he also practiced teaching between 1999 and 2003.
Over the last ten years, El Said has been invited to give lectures and masterclasses related to his practice as a filmmaker in many international film and art Institutes, including, among others, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Yale University, Cornell University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC) and Silent Green in Berlin.
El Said has an extensive practical experience in various production fields. In 2003, he took on the role of Senior Producer and Artistic Consultant for the Dubai-based Hot Spot Films, the leading documentary production house in the Middle East. He contributed to the company's exponential growth, producing more than 250 documentaries in 58 countries worldwide, some of which have won several international awards.
El Said's practice reveals his interest in the intersection of archives and film as a method of expression and exploration. His creative production has been recently honed towards expanding the use and definition of the 'archival'. His most recent installation, Tracing Escaped Images | draft 1.0, is an interactive, participatory project to collectively write and design a fiction book about the self, memory, and archive. The installation was presented at Syros International Film Festival in Greece in July 2022.
- Film Practice
- Archive & Film History
- Audiovisual Language
- Interdisciplinary Arts