Reza Monahan brings viewers into the studios and projects of today's most influential artists, architects, musicians, and philosophers. A documentarian and experimental filmmaker who treats the camera as a way of seeing rather than recording, Monahan has produced and directed hundreds of films and interviews over the past decade, in partnership with institutions and publications including NASA/JPL, LACMA, and Dezeen. Commissions and collaborations welcome.
Selected films
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Reza Monahan Studio Reel
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Nutritious Buildings: Thomas Heatherwick on Care, Story & the Human Scale
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Urs Fischer: Denominator
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The Studio at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
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Living Infrastructure: The New Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct
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Liz Diller on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Broad Museum
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Jensen Architects
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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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Achieving a Living Building: Santa Monica City Hall East
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Bestor Architecture
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Architecture Is a Social Act
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Sasaki: Los Angeles
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Sasaki: Waterfronts
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Victory Wellness Center: Adaptive Diagonals
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LA’s Historic-Cultural Monuments and the Women They Leave Out
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William Friedkin: An Analysis of Film and Beyond
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Ai Weiwei: "Zodiac"
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Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
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Model Worlds: Phil Tippett - Monster Maker
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Sarah Davachi: Diegetic Dioramas at the Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Sarah Davachi: Timbre, Texture, and Tone at The Cathedral
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Black Hole: A Space for Audio
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Fear and Wonder 3: The Science Fictions of AI
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Beyond the Frame: Regeneration of Black Cinema 1898-1971
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Objects of Desire
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Slavoj Zizek Interview
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Pinball Hall of Fame
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Made in L.A. 2020: a version
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Flintstone House
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Joshua Callaghan: Family Tree
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Stiff Peaks
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People's Pottery Project: Community and Decarceration Through Clay
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Aaron Curry: Metal Plastic Paint
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Wolf Eyes: Godfathers of American Avant-Noise
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Simphiwe Ndzube: Embracing the Coexistence of Seemingly Irreconcilable Realities
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Shattered Glass
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Ligia Lewis: Performance Artist
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Oscar Tuazon: The Los Angeles Water School (LAWS)
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Vincent Pocsik's Anatomical Sculptural Works
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MEXTRÓPOLI 2019: Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad
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Fritz Haeg’s Salmon Creek Farm
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Buck Ellison: Photographer
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Jónsi
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Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin: Those Things that Result in Victories
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Another City Is Possible
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Anne Imhof: EMO
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Arabesque: Julia Morgan, Jules Bourgoin, and Rayyane Tabet at Storefront for Art and Architecture