Film — Reza Monahan

Reza Monahan Studio creates documentaries that bring viewers from around the world into the studios and projects of today’s most influential artists, architects, musicians, and philosophers. Over the last ten years, Monahan has produced and directed hundreds of films and interviews in partnership with institutions and publications including NASA/JPL, LACMA, Dezeen and many others.

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Selected films

Reza Monahan Studio Reel

Split Diopter: At the Seam of Art and Cinema

Urs Fischer: Denominator

The Studio at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab

Living Infrastructure: The New Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct

Liz Diller on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Broad Museum

Jensen Architects

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Achieving a Living Building: Santa Monica City Hall East

Bestor Architecture

Architecture Is a Social Act

Sasaki: Los Angeles

Sasaki: Waterfronts

Victory Wellness Center: Adaptive Diagonals

LA’s Historic-Cultural Monuments and the Women They Leave Out

William Friedkin: An Analysis of Film and Beyond

Ai Weiwei: "Zodiac"

Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom

Model Worlds: Phil Tippett - Monster Maker

Sarah Davachi: Diegetic Dioramas at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Sarah Davachi: Timbre, Texture, and Tone at The Cathedral

Black Hole: A Space for Audio

Fear and Wonder 3: The Science Fictions of AI

Beyond the Frame: Regeneration of Black Cinema 1898-1971

Objects of Desire

Slavoj Zizek Interview

Pinball Hall of Fame

Made in L.A. 2020: a version

Flintstone House

Joshua Callaghan: Family Tree

Stiff Peaks

People's Pottery Project: Community and Decarceration Through Clay

Aaron Curry: Metal Plastic Paint

Wolf Eyes: Godfathers of American Avant-Noise

Simphiwe Ndzube: Embracing the Coexistence of Seemingly Irreconcilable Realities

Shattered Glass

Ligia Lewis: Performance Artist

Oscar Tuazon: The Los Angeles Water School (LAWS)

Vincent Pocsik's Anatomical Sculptural Works

MEXTRÓPOLI 2019: Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad

Fritz Haeg’s Salmon Creek Farm

Buck Ellison: Photographer

Jónsi

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin: Those Things that Result in Victories

Another City Is Possible

Anne Imhof: EMO

Arabesque: Julia Morgan, Jules Bourgoin, and Rayyane Tabet at Storefront for Art and Architecture