Faridi, Furqan

Furqan Faridi, M.A.

PraeDoc

Contact Details

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
NIG, 4th floor
Room: A0404


E-Mail: furqan.ghani@univie.ac.at

Research Focus Areas

  • film and visual culture
  • people's movements
  • arts
  • migration
  • music

Short Biography

Furqan Faridi is a filmmaker and journalist from Kashmir. Currently, he is a PraeDoc in the project Anthrofuture, an ERC-funded research project at the University of Vienna, about understanding futures through art worlds. He is using ethnographic filmaking to explore future-making in art schools in India. With a background in documentary film, he is interested in social justice, people's movements, migration and using film and music as tools for community building.