
Alexandra is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2025 to March, 2025
Alexandra’s work grapples with the notion of cultural identity as a second generation Iranian immigrant, growing up in America. Drawing from her mother’s recollection and a mix of archival and contemporary media, she navigates the complexities of heritage, globalization and the space between cultures. Through media collage, Kaucher examines themes such as feminism, consumerism, and social standards in western culture, contrasting with her persian roots.

Meet the Artist
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Specifically, we’d love to know about your background.
I am Alexandra Tahereh Kaucher, I am a director currently based in Brooklyn, I am a second-generation Iranian immigrant who grew up in the U.S. My film work and video installations primarily grapple my cultural identity, feminism, and consumerism. I play Persian tar and do music too. 🙂
How would you describe your artistic practice?
I consider myself an experimental filmmaker. I make documentaries and video art. I love working with media collage pulled from both archival and contemporary sources, mixed in with my own photography. I am extremely inspired by Bruce Conner, Chris Marker, Shirin Neshat, and Harmony Korine.
I am very drawn to repetition, I think that is very influenced by my love for Persian art, there’s a lot of repetition in the carpets, architecture, and handiworks. Repetition gives a sense of harmony and order amongst the chaos.
What is your methodology or process for creating a new project?
I like to have everything out in front of me so I can place it like in a collage, I don’t always work linearly. Working linearly is stifling for me. There is a kind of push and pull with editing that I love where you are informing it and it informs you, it feels like another form of sculpting.
I sometimes discover one clip and then I want to explore how I can repurpose that idea or distill it into something new. I have always been drawn to collage, when I was a little girl I used to cut up my mom’s magazines and make little collages– which my mom surely kept. I am in active pre-production of my project which has involved conducting interviews to see what story elements I want to use for the final film. I want the story of this film to emerge collaboratively with the subjects because it’s ultimately their story and I want to be true to them.
What’s the project you’re working on during GlogauAIR’s residency?
During my residency at GlogauAIR, I have been working on my latest film, Never Move Backwards, an intimate portrait of an all-female parkour troupe in Iran.
Statement
As a second generation Iranian immigrant growing up in America, my video work primarily grapples with the notion of cultural identity. I grew up with only a second-hand account of Persian culture, relying on my mother’s account of growing up there. This has made getting in touch with my roots exceedingly difficult, as I am always cast as an outsider looking in. My work is about charting that heritage, from the perspective of growing up in the Western world, and also from the perspective of Iranians, and the disparate place in between.
Through omnifarious media collage pulled from both archival and contemporary media sources, I attempt to distill what Iranian culture permeates in a world ever expanding with globalism ideals in the internet age. I am interested in exploring feminism, consumerism, and decoding social standards in western culture, and how that juxtaposes with my persian heritage.
GlogauAIR Project
Never Move Backwards is an intimate portrait of an Iranian female parkour troupe in Shiraz, Iran. The team is captivated by the freedom and fluidity of their movements—the way they seem to defy gravity and transcend the limitations of their environment. Parkour represents everything she has been longing for: freedom, strength, and the courage to push beyond boundaries.
The film examines the dystopian feeling of coming of age, as one finds out what their limits are. Parkour is a visual representation of testing those limits, and I seek to understand what draws these women to a sport defined by a sense of fearlessness. Is it nihilism? Rebellion? Is it that they have no fear of death because they view their lives with a bleak outlook? The film will explore themes of rebellion, youth, and counter culture set against the backdrop of Iran’s ever mutable cultural identity.
I am inspired by women practicing parkour in Iran by the sheer bravery and physical and mental strength it takes to do parkour. There are so many fears one must conquer to put yourself into the mindset of yes I can defy gravity. Women’s bodies themselves have long been a symbol of rebellion and often politicized.
Women’s bodies are forever under threat, making themselves smaller, but doing parkour is the antithesis of being small.
Parkour is about taking one’s own body and pushing its physical limits and becoming the strongest version of itself enough to soar over buildings and concrete. I’m interested in the sport being a transcendence of the body over the materiality of the physical space in which we reside.
Parkour represents a leap of faith, jumping into the unknown, the willingness to put oneself at risk for something greater.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 Woman Made Gallery, Down There Showing Utera (2023)
- 2023 Kato Wong Gallery Here is Iran Showing How to Cut a Pomegranate (2020)
- 2023 Women Made Gallery Tickled Pink Showing Whimsical Pussy (2020)
- 2023 New House Art Space Hysterical – Showing: Utera
- 2023 Women Made Gallery – Women Life Freedom Exhibition Showing: Haft Sin
- 2023 Women Made Gallery Tickled Pink Showing Whimsical Pussy (2020)
- 2022 Artist in Residence Valluris-Golfe-Juan – Installation Showing Unrest in Iran, Utera,
SELECTED WORK
- 2020 How to Cut a Pomegranate 2019 Unrest in Iran
- 2020 Atlanta Film Festival Experimental Shorts
- Swedenborg Society Film Festival 2019 – Curated by Nora Foster (Frieze art fair) & Gareth Evans (White Chapel Gallery) Barcelona International Short Film Festival, CODEC Film Festival 2019,
- Rome Independent Prisma Awards,VASTLAB Experimental 2021,
- Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, ULTRAcinema Alessandria Film Festival, Esto Es Para Esto, Experimental Superstars,
- 2019 Bend Low, Sweet Branch, Bend Low
- The Lift-Off Sessions, LEGACY’ The Film Club Toront, Transparent Film Festival Experimental Superstars, End of Days Film Festival, Rome Independent Prisma Awards Sunday Shorts Film Festival, Varese International Film Festival,
- VASTLAB Experimental 2021
- 2018 Fashion is Love Commissioned by Non-profit Custom Collaborative
- Featured in Re-make, Fashion Film Festival Milano 2019 LA Fashion Festival 2019, Awareness Film Festival 2018 MICGénero, Fashion Film Festival Chicago,
- Artfools – Eco Fashion Film Festival
- 2017 Créme
- AVIFF Cannes
- 2016 Solid Form – Kelli Cain Featured in Alpine Modern 2015 Grapes and Water Music Video for Ray Knight
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival
SELECTED COMMISSIONED WORK
- 2024 Byredo
- 2023 Feda X Hitachi Energy
- 2023 Learning Lessons of Appropriation X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 An Ecuadorian Indigenous community works to preserve the rainforest X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 Harnessing the Power of Water X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 – Dancing Towards Happiness X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 – Sleeping Well X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 – Creating the sustainable mine of the future
- 2022 Pathways – connecting the world’s largest offshore wind farm to power six million homes in the UK
- 2022 Sunbeam
- 2022 Smoked Dung & Arctic Thyme X BBC Storyworks
- 2022 Preserving Every Drop water conservation in Jamaica X BBC Storyworks 2022 Running to stand still X BBC Storyworks
- 2021 Building Communities in Turin X BBC Storyworks
- 2021 Resilience in a remote fishing town X BBC Storyworks
- 2021 Humanising Energy X BBC Storyworks
- 2021 Living with a congenital heart defect X BBC Storyworks
- 2020 The women breaking barriers in haemophilia X BBC Storyworks
- 2020 How to increase the amount of plastic we recycle X BBC Storyworks 2020 Watch gang – Everytime
- 2020 Oshin // 212/232
- Fashion Film Festival Milano 2020
- 2020 Simple diagnostic tests empowering myeloma patients X BBC Storyworks 2019 The forest classrooms raising responsible children X BBC Storyworks
EDUCATION
- 2010 New York University in Madrid, Madrid, Spain Coursework in Spanish language, literature, and art
- 2011 New York University, College of Arts and Science, New York, NY Bachelor of Arts
- Major: European and Mediterranean Studies Minor: Italian
- 2008-2009 New York University in Florence, Florence, Italy Coursework in Italian language, literature, and art
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