Argyro Nicolaou is a Cypriot filmmaker, writer and researcher based in NYC. Her short films have screened at festivals in Europe and the US while she has also curated and participated in film and visual arts programming in New York, Athens and Cyprus.

Argyro’s writing has been published in MoMA post, the American Historical Review, the Boston Art Review and numerous collected essay volumes. She is at work on her first book, 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, literature and cultural history courses at Princeton, Columbia and Bard College.

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”, which won the Connecting Cottbus Award at the Karlovy Vary Eastern Promises Industry section in 2023; and her first feature documentary, “Unsettled (My Sea)”, which participated in UnionDocs’ Early Production Lab in 2024.

Argyro is one of two Artistic Directors for Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival.