About

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Rana Jarbou is a Riyadh-based social documentarian and media artist. She is a freelance documentary filmmaker, researcher, writer, and graffiti archivist, with teaching experience in Film + Digital Media. She’s published essays in Arabic Graffiti (2011) & (2013), Walls of Freedom (2013), and Street Art of Resistance (2018), and has written about graffiti in various online outlets. She exhibited her work in international and regional arts and culture exhibitions, and her award-winning social documentary film Hajwalah (2015) screened in numerous intl’ film festivals. Her ongoing project “1001 Walls” tells stories and counternarratives through walls, highlighting issues of censorship and politics of space, and her current research and practice examine Saudi Arabia’s “regime of vision” through analysis of Aramco films. Aramco’s Moving Image (Forthcoming 2023) is a Research on the Arts Project (RAP) funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS).

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Research interests: Film + Visual Studies, Critical Archival Studies, Media Ecology + Archaeology, Critical Geography, Arab Cinema, Cinematic Urbanism, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic Graffiti.