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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Movie Thanks
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2024
My First Film - Behind the Scenes
Movie Herself
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2024
My First Film
Movie Zia
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2023
Manodrome
Movie Alice
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2018
Notes on an Appearance
Movie
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2017
Let Me Die a Nun
TV show Novice Mistress
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2015
The Show About the Show
TV show Ashley
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2015
My Last Film
Movie Director
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2015
I Remember Nothing
Movie Director
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2010
Thanks for Calling, Baby.
Movie Director
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2009
How She Makes It
Movie Girl
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2008
Lover Boy
Movie Director