Iris Cahn is a full professor and chair of the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, New York.

Biography

Cahn earned her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase College and her M.A. from

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. She edits feature films and

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, including ''

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'' (directed by

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, music composed by Philip Glass), ''Worst Possible illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz'' (also receiving writing credit), ''Fragments of Kubelka'', ''Lessons From and American Primary'' (which she also produced), '' Devo: Are We Not Men?'', and directed short films which have screened at the New York Film Festival and on network television. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for specials and a series.Iris Cahn
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and Sundance Film Festivals, in addition to

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and the Robert Flaherty Film Festivals.

References

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