​Iram Ghufran is a filmmaker and artist based in Delhi. Her work lies at the juncture of research, documentary processes and speculative poetics, creating a liminal space for resonance, rupture and reflection. Working largely across film, photography and writing, Iram engages with themes of personal memory, intimate histories and the spectral traces of the inexplicable and non-evidentiary. Through an interdisciplinary practice, she constructs poetic encounters with fragmented archives, speculative testimonies, and haunted geographies. Her work often draws from lived experience and social memory to explore how reality is mediated, narrated, and reimagined. She is particularly interested in cinematic gestures that unsettle the fixities of form, genre, and epistemology, expanding on the possibilities of nonfiction as a critical, sensuous and ethical mode of inquiry.  Iram proposes film as a way of being with others - across time, distance and ideology.

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Iram holds an MA in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia University (2003), and a PhD from the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts (CREAM), University of Westminster (2023). Her doctoral project was a practice-based inquiry into speculative modes of futurity in documentary film. Iram was a member of the Media Lab at Sarai CSDS from 2004-11, where besides pursuing her independent practice, she collaboratively worked on media art and research projects.  Iram is part of the Desi Chinese Project, an oral history and archival research initiative about the Indian Chinese community. Iram co-curated Soundphiles: a festival of listening (2014-16) and Artists' Film & Video (2017) for IAWRT's International Women's Film Festival. 

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Iram's work has been supported by Arts Network Asia, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Public Service Broadcasting Trust, Sandarbh and Westheavens. Her films have been screened at renowned art and cinematic platforms including Arsenal 4 at Silent Green, Brakhage Centre, Visions du Reel, Experimenta India, Forum Expanded at Berlin Film Festival, International Film Festival of India, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, and Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition among others.

Iram is on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Artistic Research published by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR). ​ She currently teaches at the Department of Art, Media and Performance, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,  Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi National Capital Region.