Biography
Kaz Rahman is a Teaching Associate Professor in the University Honors program and has vast experience as an academic and an artist/filmmaker. He is the author of the 2017 book Islamic Art and Modernism: Formal Elements in Painting, Architecture, and Film and is the writer/director of two narrative feature films, Salaat (2010) and Deccani Souls (2012), and the broadcast series Green and Blue (2015). He has also collaborated on high-profile multi-media storytelling using live projection in the opera Lampedusa (2019) and 360 filmmaking in the performance work Digital Dervish + Flamenco Sonic (2022). His work has played in film festivals and venues such as Anthology Film Archives, National Film Board of Canada, India Habitat Centre, Salar Jung Museum, Andy Warhol Museum, The San Jose Museum of Art, Bogazici Film Festival, SUFICINE Festival, TODA Dubai and broadcast on TV24 and TRT World (Turkey) and has been featured in publications such as The Times of India, The Hindu, The New Indian Express (India), Daily Sabah and Star-Gazette (Turkey).
Rahman has a BFA in Visual Arts from York University in Toronto and an MFA in Media Arts (writing/directing) from City College (CUNY), New York City. He has taught extensively at universities in the USA and India, Turkey, and England, where many of his students have gone on to work in the TV and Film industries. He always emphasizes the classroom as a dynamic space for sharing and learning from each other’s stories and ideas. He likes to wield the whiteboard to encourage problem-solving and adaptive thinking.
Clifton Strengths:Â Intellection, Ideation, Context, Strategic, Belief