Maria Niro (born in Italy) is a New York City based artist and filmmaker who works with video, photography, and sound. She's completed over 40 short films with original sound, focusing on social issues such as the voiceless disenfranchised in "Amerika Reflect" (2010); war, technological innovation and mass destruction in "Glitch Telemetry" (2011); and collective consumption in "Torso" (2010), among others.
Her current project is a feature length documentary titled "Un-War!" which focuses on pioneering media artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, who uses video projection and technology to transform public space into public stages so that testimony of society’s marginalized citizens can be heard. Un-War! deconstructs the myth of war through Wodiczko's recent socially conscious, site specific urban interventions.
Niro's films have screened and exhibited worldwide including at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, European Media Art Festival in Germany, Whitechapel Gallery UK, WNDX Festival in Canada, the Annual River To River Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, Video DUMBO, Los Angeles Art Organization, Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano CUBA, The 7th and 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, MIM and More Gallery in Berlin, and many others.
Niro studied Film and Media Studies at The New School for Social Research/ New School University. She has served on the Board of Directors at The New American Cinema Group / The Film-makers' Cooperative in New York City.
Her current project is a feature length documentary titled "Un-War!" which focuses on pioneering media artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, who uses video projection and technology to transform public space into public stages so that testimony of society’s marginalized citizens can be heard. Un-War! deconstructs the myth of war through Wodiczko's recent socially conscious, site specific urban interventions.
Niro's films have screened and exhibited worldwide including at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, European Media Art Festival in Germany, Whitechapel Gallery UK, WNDX Festival in Canada, the Annual River To River Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, Video DUMBO, Los Angeles Art Organization, Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano CUBA, The 7th and 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, MIM and More Gallery in Berlin, and many others.
Niro studied Film and Media Studies at The New School for Social Research/ New School University. She has served on the Board of Directors at The New American Cinema Group / The Film-makers' Cooperative in New York City.