Al Nigrin, Neighbor

Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc. -- a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in New Jersey via the New Jersey Film Festivals, and the United States Super 8mm Film + DigitalVideo Festival.

Mr. Nigrin has an M.F.A. (in Visual Arts/Film) and an M.A. (in French Literature) from Rutgers University and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Mr. Nigrin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts/ American Film Institute Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship Program and the Ford Foundation for his flm/video work. In addition, Mr. Nigrin was awarded a 2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellowship. During 2004-2005, Mr. Nigrin’s experimental films are touring China via art galleries, media art centers and universities.

Mr. Nigrin's most recent work Light Pharmacy: 5/Mental Radio and Tundra) were winners at the prestigious 2000 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, No-TV 1999 Festival, Rochester, NY, the 1999-2001 Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Filmmaking retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. Other works were winners at the 1997 Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival [Nashville, Tennessee], the 1997 Big Muddy Film/Video Festival [Illinois], the 1997 Atlanta International Film/Video Festival [Georgia], the 1996 VIVA 8 Film Festival [London, England], the 1996 Black Maria Film/Video Festival, the 1995 Chicago Onion City Experimental Film Festivalthe 1995 American Film Institute National Video Festival [Hollywood, CA], the 1994 American Film Institute National Video Festival [Hollywood, CA], and the 1993 Atlanta International Film and Video Festival.