Faculty

Amir Husak is a media maker and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School. Combining film, video, sound, interactive media, essay and experimental techniques, Husak’s work explores documentary as social practice and investigates representations of history, migration and memory. He has shown works at such diverse places as Cinemateca Distrital (Bogota, Colombia), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Stadtmuseum Graz (Austria), South by Southwest (US), Sundance Film Festival (US), P.O.V./PBS (US), Crvena Association for Culture and Art (Sarajevo, Bosnia), TV Cultura (Brazil), and Full Frame Film Festival (US). In 2016 Husak co-edited a volume on socially engaged art and activist media in Bosnia-Herzegovina titled Crisis, Art, Action (in orig. Kriza, Umjetnost, Akcija). He has published articles and essays on emergent forms of documentary and activist media in scholarly journals, magazines and online publications. In 2012-2013 he was a Fulbright research fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s department of Diversity and Social Conflict. Husak holds a PhD in Arts and Communication from University of Leeds (UK), and serves as Artistic Director of BHFF NYC Film Festival, a showcase of cinema from Southeast Europe and its diasporas.

University of Leeds (UK) | PhD, Arts and Communication

The New School (NY) | MA, Media Studies

“The Pain That Sits in One’s Stomach: Želimir Žilnik’s The Old School of Capitalism,” Artist Cinema series: From the East: Some Strange, Scary, and Funny Messages, e-Flux Journal (Film & Video): January 2022

"George Floyd is everywhere", Perspectives, Kosovo 2.0, June 10, 2020. Available online at https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/george-floyd-is- everywhere/

“Exercising Radical Democracy: The Crisis of Representation and Interactive Documentary as an Agent of Change.” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 15, Summer 2018, pp. 16–32.

“In Search of a Thirdspace” (orig. in Bosnian: “U potrazi za trećeprostorom: umjetnost socijalne prakse u Bihacu”), Revizor (Broj 1.), Contributing author, Revizor Foundation, Bihać: March, 2018.

Crisis, Art, Action (Kriza, Umjetnost, Akcija), in Bos/Cro/Srb, Editor and contributor, Bihać/Sarajevo: Gradska Galerija, 2016. ISBN 978-9958-9416-5-8