Iva’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, Jeonju iFF, CPH:DOX, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), and were commissioned by ARTE La Lucarne and Field of Vision. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Princess Grace Special Project Award and Film Fellowship.

When not working on her own films, Iva enjoys collaborating through writing and editing. A film she edited MA premiered at the Venice Film Festival, All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn’t Open, a film she co-wrote and edited, won the Regard Neuf Award at Visions Du Reel in 2017 and A Machine To Live In premiered at True False in 2020. King Coal premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2023 – a NYT Critics Pick. Most recently, John Lilly and The Earth Coincidence Control Office premiered in Rotterdam IFF and MOMA’s Doc Fortnight 2025.

Signatures, or the Bass Line of a Freighter Ship, her chapbook of poems was published by Bottlecap Press. Iva’s three channel installation Enter The Aleph was commissioned and installed at the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2023. Her first art book, Avenue of The Living, is published by Big Black Mountain press in Athens, Greece.

She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice, France. Her new film When The Phone Rang received the Special Mention Award at the 77th Locarno Film Festival and continues to win awards worldwide. A book of the original story by the same name is published by red herring press in the UK.

The artist will be present for a Q&A after the program.

Experimental Tuesdays is a free weekly screening series that features the most celebrated work of contemporary and historical artist-made film and video. The series seeks to present films and artists that explore the creative and critical potential of moving images. This series amplifies marginalized voices by hosting artists that represent diverse populations, such as LGBT, Native American, Black and Latinx artists. Hosted by the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres, and presented in partnership with UWM’s Union Cinema, this series is a bedrock of the Milwaukee arts landscape. Experimental Tuesdays has recently hosted the work of Silvia das Fadas, Courtney Stephens, Simon Liu, Helena Wittman, Jessica Bardsley, Suneil Sanzgiri, Mary Helena Clark, Angelo Madsen Minax, and Rhayne Vermette to name a few. This screening series is free and open to the public.