Nomi talisman

Nomi Talisman (* 1966 in Tel Aviv ) is an American film producer and video artist whose work Last Day of Freedom at the Academy Awards 2016 as Best Short Documentary was nominated. Talisman also works as a photographer ; she has been an artist since the 1990s and has designed several dozen exhibitions.

Life

Nomi Talisman was born in Tel Aviv but grew up in Herzliya . She lived in Europe, Canada and Japan. She is now based in San Francisco . She studied Photography and Fine Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and at Beit Berl, and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2003 from Mills College (Oakland, California). Talisman is married to filmmaker Dee Hibbert-Jones , with whom she also works; both have a son.

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From 1994 Talisman published several texts, but was mainly a guest speaker, u. a. heard at several universities, including the University of North Carolina , Sacramento State University and the California College of the Arts . Their video installations have been shown worldwide.

Videos (selection)

Talisman designed several videos or video sequences for installations, most of which can be viewed on their website:

• 2002: Plan B
• 2003: Everything I knew about America I learned from the Movies
• 2005: Hazel & David
• 2005: The Why of the System
• 2006: The Last Thing Before the Last
• 2006: Excess Baggage
• 2008: Together, At Last, At Twilight Time
• 2009: Consume Your Fear
• 2009-10: I-140
• 2011: Untitled (Green Card)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1996: Camera Obscura (Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv)
• 1997: Look & Listen, Say That ( Beit Berl )
• 2001: Group / Ungroup ( Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design , Jerusalem)
• 2005: Elsewhere Installation, Elsewhere Artists ( Greensboro )
• 2007: Psychological Prosthetics: Emotional Baggage, public interventions ( Chicago )
• 2009: Consume Your Fear ( Salzburg )
• 2011: Living Condition ( San Francisco )

Awards / grants

Nomi Talisman has received multiple scholarships , including the San Francisco Arts Commission , the MacDowell Colony , the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , California Humanities (2013) and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (2013 & 2015).

In addition, she can boast the following awards:

• "The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards" (1993)
• "The Young Artists Prize" of the Israeli Ministry of Education (1996)
• "Herringer Prize for Excellence in Art" from Mills College (2002)

Film awards

• for Last Day of Freedom
  • 2015:
    • "Golden Starfish Award" of the Hamptons International Film Festival (together with Dee Hibbert-Jones)
    • "IDA Award" from the International Documentary Association
    • "CDS Filmmaker Award" & "Jury Award for Best Short" of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • 2016: Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short Film at the 2016 Academy Awards

Web links

• Nomi Talisman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• nomitalisman.info - personal website
• talisman-jones.net - joint website with Dee Hibbert-Jones
• vimeo.com/nomitalisman - Vimeo profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nirit Anderman: An Israeli Filmmaker's Animated Look at the Death Penalty . Haaretz.com, December 17, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Michele Carlson: Inside the Artist's Studio, Part 5: Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman . artpractical.com, June 26, 2014.
3. ↑ nomitalisman.net/resume - personal website. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
4. ↑ Sari Staver: Lesbian filmmakers earn Oscar nomination . windycitymediagroup.com, February 4, 2016.
5. ↑ nomitalisman.info/video ( memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - personal website. Retrieved February 20, 2016.