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Minou Norouzi is an Austrian-Iranian artist-filmmaker, fond of elliptical paths – conceptually, and ethically but also geographically. She moves between London, Helsinki and Athens maintaining close ties to artistic and scholarly communities. Elliptical shapes as metaphor and narrative method also characterise her films guided by the cycles of departure and return innate to diasporic life. Aesthetically, her work sits somewhere between the folds of artists’ moving images, experimental documentary and essay film traditions. Minou is committed to dialogue and reflection, to mindful consumption, and to tackling exclusion interventions imaginatively, and authentically. She thrives on conversation, loves cooking and gathering around food. She has written extensively about films for academic presses and also dabbles in film criticism. Minou co-founded and was responsible for the programming direction and production of the artists’ moving image festival Sheffield Fringe (2011-19).