About me:

Russian born, Irina Patkanian is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. Patkanian’s films and videos were shown at various festivals and at the Tenement Museum in New York City. Patkanian founded a non-for-profit film and theater company “In Parenthesis” of which she is a president. Most recently Patkanian wrote/directed and produced an experimental documentary “My American Neighbor” about the perception of America from the other side of the Atlantic and a digital short “Second Egyptian,” based on a novella by Marina Palei. Irina Patkanian is a Professor of Media Production at the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.