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Panos Aprahamian (b. 1986) is a Berlin-based unfiction filmmaker, media artist, and writer from Beirut's peripheral rustbelt. Through language, image, and ritual, his practice explores the spectral presence of the future past in undead bodies, sacrificial landscapes, and social relations. He studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts London, graduating with an MA in Documentary Film in 2015. Aprahamian was a scholar at Caspian Arts in 2015 and a fellow at Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program between 2017 and 2018. He is the winner of the Ecumenical Prize at the 2022 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, recipient of the Eliza Moore fellowship for artistic excellence in 2024, and the Han Nefkens Foundation—Museu Tàpies Video Art Production grantee for the 2024–2026 cycle. Between 2019 and 2021, he taught at the American University of Beirut in the Fine Arts Department and the Media Studies Program.

The Han Nefkens Foundation is a private non-profit organisation established in Barcelona in 2009 by Dutch writer and patron Han Nefkens. It focuses exclusively on video art production, with the aim of connecting people through art around the world. The Foundation develops its activities through an extensive global network of experts who combine their knowledge and experience as scouts, advisors and jury members in selecting the artists who will receive its support. Positioned as a platform for emerging and mid-career video artists to advance their careers, its main activity is to commission new works through international grants and commissions that culminate in exhibitions at partner institutions. The Foundation works closely with artists on a personalised basis, according to their individual needs, from the very beginning to the final presentation. Nefkens' reflections, inspired by encounters in her daily life, can be found at hannefkens.com.