Emily Mkrtichian is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, and interdisciplinary creative collaborator. Her evolving artistic practice reflects her upbringing in a displaced, diasporic family, and centers the decolonized narratives of women, especially from the SWANA region, as well as a deep commitment to the healing power of relational, ethical, collaborative storytelling.

Emily has been a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, a LA Arts Activation Fund recipient, A Locarno Film Festival development grant winner, a UnionDocs Summer Lab Fellow, and participated in the Torino Film Creative Producing Lab. She is currently working on her first feature documentary film There Was, There Was Not, which has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, the International Documentary Association Enterprise Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures and the HotDocs Cross Currents Fund.

 

Her work includes the immersive, multimedia installation Luys i Luso, created in collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, an exploration music’s effect on spaces that were lost to a genocide a century before. The installation has traveled to NYC (BRIC Arts), LA (Arts Activation fund recipient for public art), Istanbul (DEPO Gallery),Munich (Unterfahrt), Armenia, and Sophia, Bulgaria (European Capital of Culture).

Emily co-directed the sci-fi short Transmission about an activist couple searching for each other between worlds (World Premiere BFI Flare); and in 2019 completed the short documentary Motherland (World Premiere Full Frame Film Festival, Winner Best Documentary Short at Copenhagen International Film Festival and Pomegranate International Film Festival) about the women who shake tradition and risk their lives to rid their country of landmines leftover from an ethnic war.