Seven Questions with... Niki Kohandel

This week we meet Niki Kohandel, Fine Art student at the Slade. Here, she chats to us about experimenting with analogue film and her new short film, Just Another Year, which is currently being screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. What are you studying, why are you interested in this subject and what do you plan to do in the future?. I am in my second year of undergraduate studies in Fine Art at the Slade. Being in the Fine Art Media department is very exciting, as it allows me to experiment with a wide range of materials and processes including analogue film and photography, installation, printmaking and even writing. This freedom has really been really key to the development of my practice, through which I aim to bridge the gap between documentary and fictional storytelling. My work often stems from oral histories: I treat family anecdotes, personal accounts, tales and even cooking recipes (informed by my French-Iranian heritage) as materials, which I gather, reassemble and rewrite into socio-political narratives.