There are names for homes that are not on any maps. The complexity of calling a place home while struggling to find acceptance there permeates these video poems. As many of us are spending more time where we dwell than ever before, the gratitude we might feel for our home is colored by a feeling of entrapment. At the same time, the comfort, safety, and services of shelter are by no means guaranteed. This screening is for the displaced, the vulnerable, and the shut-ins crawling out of their skin; for those whose struggle to define and redefine a concept of home for themselves is continual.
Poet Zêdan Xelef recounts the drudgery of everyday life in Chamishko, a camp in Northern Iraq that now hosts over 5,000 Êzîdî families who survived the Islamic State's ruthless genocide.
- Year2019
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageArabic, with English subtitles
- CountryIraq
- PremiereUS Premiere
- NotePoets: David Shook, Zêdan Xelef
- DirectorDavid Shook
- ProducerPshtewan Kamal, Hozan Xelef
- Executive ProducerAlana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, David Shook, Kashkul
- CinematographerPshtewan Kamal
There are names for homes that are not on any maps. The complexity of calling a place home while struggling to find acceptance there permeates these video poems. As many of us are spending more time where we dwell than ever before, the gratitude we might feel for our home is colored by a feeling of entrapment. At the same time, the comfort, safety, and services of shelter are by no means guaranteed. This screening is for the displaced, the vulnerable, and the shut-ins crawling out of their skin; for those whose struggle to define and redefine a concept of home for themselves is continual.
Poet Zêdan Xelef recounts the drudgery of everyday life in Chamishko, a camp in Northern Iraq that now hosts over 5,000 Êzîdî families who survived the Islamic State's ruthless genocide.
- Year2019
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageArabic, with English subtitles
- CountryIraq
- PremiereUS Premiere
- NotePoets: David Shook, Zêdan Xelef
- DirectorDavid Shook
- ProducerPshtewan Kamal, Hozan Xelef
- Executive ProducerAlana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, David Shook, Kashkul
- CinematographerPshtewan Kamal