Iman Alexander is a visual artist of Senegalese and Mauritanian descent, raised in Jersey City. Her passion for filmmaking arose as a dancer who was lent a Panasonic DVX camera to shoot dance videos at her hometown studio. Soon after she had the pleasure of being chosen as a fellow at Public Assistants Youth Filmmaking Fellowship, becoming enveloped with nonfiction filmmaking. During her studies at Pratt Institute (26’) she was greatly inspired by the third cinema and questions of visibility posed in post-colonial film theory, moving her work into hybrid forms. She explores the interplay between collective making and performance. Iman’s work prioritizes the experiential, as an editor and documentarian she contends with the histories of visualizations specifically due to the history of visualizing against her respective African femme queer and muslim communities.Her view on visual art is one that prioritizes the liberation of art practices to all, she views imagemaking and archive reflecting as conjectures for the creation of a liberation art. She is extremely passionate about accessible filmmaking. Understanding films shape our worldview, and that power must be held by all who wish to reimage the way the world was shaped to view them.
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