Nicholas Monsour is a filmmaker, theater-maker, writer, musician and artist currently living in Los Angeles. He studied set design at Otis Art School in Los Angeles, contemporary art theory and practice at Santa Monica City College, and has a BFA in performance and film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has created performances, videos, music and art pieces which have been exhibited in multiple cities in the United States and abroad.

He has made theater and performance work as co-founder of Weather Talking Theater Company, the founder and director of the Center for Decorporative Research, and collaborator with the Curious Theater Branch, the Neo-Futurists and Brian Torrey Scott. He has been a production assistant on many commercial and student films, been an editor and videographer on numerous documentary projects, and was the First Assistant Director on Marianna Palka’s Good Dick — an official narrative selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

He is currently working as a director, videographer, editor, and designer for non-profit and art-related projects.

FILM/VIDEO:

Time Will Tell (35min, 2008)
Oh My Soul (71min, 2008)
YX (11min, 2007)
Echo Chamber (25min, 2007)
Breathing (5min, 2007)
Spellbreaker (4min, 2007)
CDR-DV1:AITCM (30min, 2006)
Salonika (5min, 2006)
BURN (5min, 2004)






  

PERFORMANCE:

Cook County Clare (2007)
April Is The Cruelest Month (2006)
Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon (2006)
Force Publique (2006)
Discarded Landscape (2005)

FICTION:

Night X (in progress)
The Family Ixodiae (2007)
25 (2005)
The Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood (2003)
Two, Very Different (2003)
Post-Coitus (2002)