Argyro Nicolaou is a Cypriot writer and filmmaker based in NYC.
Her short films have screened at festivals in Europe and the US (POFF Shorts, Lemesos Int’l Documentary Festival, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, DC Shorts Fest), while she has also curated and participated in film and visual arts programming in New York, Athens and Cyprus (Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival, Gallatin Galleries NYU, space52, The Island Club).
Argyro’s writing has been published in MoMA post, the American Historical Review, the Boston Art Review and numerous collected essay volumes. She has recently completed her first book manuscript, Knowing Displacement, which examines how representations of Mediterranean migration in literature, film, and visual art shatter the myth of Fortress Europe.
Argyro got her PhD in Comparative Literature and Critical Media Practice from Harvard in 2018, where she also received the Bowdoin Prize, Harvard’s most prestigious writing award. In 2018-2019 she worked as a curatorial researcher at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the Department of Media and Performance, and has since taught film studies, literature and cultural history courses at Princeton and Columbia Universities.
Argyro is a member of the European Film Academy, the Directors Guild of Cyprus and the Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association. She is currently at work on her first feature film, “Excavators”, supported by a script development grant from the Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee.
She is one of two Artistic Directors for Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival 2023.
