Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marlo Irani is an Iranian-French Canadian filmmaker whose style emphasizes creativity and emotion. His visually stimulating work spans genres, from documentaries on the lives of undocumented immigrants to joyous dance videos to black-and-white silent comedy.
Currently studying at the NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute for Film and Television, Marlo has been pursuing an education in film for four years. He was introduced to filmmaking at Brentwood School, the high school he attended in Los Angeles.
In 2018 and ‘19, Marlo took two summer programs at USC, creating his documentary Dividido, which followed an undocumented construction worker who lives on-site during the weekdays, and the short narrative EVE. Dividido went on to win an award with The National Youngarts Foundation, where Marlo was inspired to leave the prep-school environment of Brentwood and transfer to Interlochen Arts Academy, which would surround him with other like-minded creatives.
At Interlochen, Marlo learned foundational techniques in filmmaking that have elevated his work ever since. He collaborated with poets, musicians, and actors to create projects that were shown at the New World Center in Miami for Interlochen’s traveling collage show, entitled One. Those projects included the visuals for the spoken word piece Paper Boat by Alanna Sabine and the music video for Emma Kirsch’s Peter.
Currently, Marlo is working in documentaries and short narratives. His vibrant and compelling work is being brought to new levels in collaborating with artists like Sarah Meyohas, a Franco-American conceptual artist who created one of the first proto-NFTs. His recent edit of her interview at the French Embassy in New York was used as promotional material for the Prix Opline, which Meyohas was nominated for by the artist ORLAN. He recently finished a short animation, Fourth Grade, which focused on the dissociative memories which he experienced during his father’s fight against cancer.
Currently studying at the NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute for Film and Television, Marlo has been pursuing an education in film for four years. He was introduced to filmmaking at Brentwood School, the high school he attended in Los Angeles.
In 2018 and ‘19, Marlo took two summer programs at USC, creating his documentary Dividido, which followed an undocumented construction worker who lives on-site during the weekdays, and the short narrative EVE. Dividido went on to win an award with The National Youngarts Foundation, where Marlo was inspired to leave the prep-school environment of Brentwood and transfer to Interlochen Arts Academy, which would surround him with other like-minded creatives.
At Interlochen, Marlo learned foundational techniques in filmmaking that have elevated his work ever since. He collaborated with poets, musicians, and actors to create projects that were shown at the New World Center in Miami for Interlochen’s traveling collage show, entitled One. Those projects included the visuals for the spoken word piece Paper Boat by Alanna Sabine and the music video for Emma Kirsch’s Peter.
Currently, Marlo is working in documentaries and short narratives. His vibrant and compelling work is being brought to new levels in collaborating with artists like Sarah Meyohas, a Franco-American conceptual artist who created one of the first proto-NFTs. His recent edit of her interview at the French Embassy in New York was used as promotional material for the Prix Opline, which Meyohas was nominated for by the artist ORLAN. He recently finished a short animation, Fourth Grade, which focused on the dissociative memories which he experienced during his father’s fight against cancer.