Iman Alexander is a documentary filmmaker and visual artist of Senegalese, Mauritanian, and French descent. Raised in Jersey City, her passion for filmmaking arose when she was lent a Panasonic DVX by her hometown dance studio. She soon becoming enveloped with nonfiction filmmaking.
While studying at Pratt Institute (BFA ‘26), Iman was greatly inspired by questions of visibility, opacity, and imaging refusal posed in post-colonial film theory, and queer feminist theory, moving her work into hybrid forms. Often exploring the interplay between collective making and performance. Iman’s practice centers the experiential, as an editor, documentarian, and director. Her view on visual art is one that prioritizes the accessibility of art practices to all, she views imagemaking and archive reflecting as reaches towards the sustination of a liberatory art. Films shape our worldview, and that power must be held by all who wish to reimage the way the world was shaped to view them.
Like Miss Toni Cade Bambara said, “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”