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Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home. A recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, she is known for her films which have won awards at Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, Shanghai, Olhar de Cinema, Vladivostok, Jogja-Netpac, and Lima Independiente, and have screened at New Directors/New Films, Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Tate Modern, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Portikus, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Taipei National Center for Photography and Images, Museum of the Moving Image, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Manila, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, and M+. Seno is a 2022 Film Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program. Shireen Seno and John Torres were Artists in Focus at the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2018, and they had their first solo exhibition, Cloudy with a chance of coconuts, in 2019 at Portikus in Frankfurt. In Manila, they run Los Otros, a critically-acclaimed film and video studio and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. Seno is also part of the collective Tito and Tita, whose work spans installation, film, photography, and collective actions.