Sara Rajaei

Sara Rajaei is an Iranian-Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in The Netherlands. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space. Her artistic oeuvre consists of short films and video installations, which remain in-between storytelling and imagery.
After her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Prix de Rome. She is currently developing her first feature film, Headless Trees, with support of the funding scheme The Imagination (De Verbeelding) of Netherlands Film Fund, produced by near/by film in co-production with seriousFilm, Ladybirds Film and Alambic Productions.

Headless Trees, feature fiction, in development City of Poets, 22’, 2024 yet another leap year, 15’, 2022 a composition in blue, red & other colors, 16’ 2017 in the gaze of panoptes, 21’30”’, 2016 1978 the 231st day, 6’20”, 2012 a leap year that started on a friday, 6’30”, 2010