Daya Cahen

The Netherlands, 1969

Daya Cahen is a film-maker and artist. Her research focuses on forms of political conditioning and on the systematic manipulation of human beings.
Her main interest is the power of the mass media and its use in constructing and presenting forms of propaganda or indoctrination.
Her works have been shown at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Dutch Photomuseum, MK Galerie in Berlin, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Dumbo Arts Center in New York and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. She has taken part in a number of international festivals and screenings, including De Appel arts centre (Amsterdam), Wiels (Brussels), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Centre Pompidou and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Platform Garanti (Istanbul), the Hermitage Amsterdam, the Short Film Festival Oberhausen, IDFA and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
She was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for the short film The Stalin that was played by me.