Echoes of oppression, extraction, and the colonial project linger in a cool evening breeze. The commonplace turns into energetic resilience, defying historical forces through everyday ritual. These films illustrate kaleidoscopic power dynamics and the mundanity of oppression, inviting us to question the way histories are recorded.

Using the photo archives of the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this project follows a wandering groundskeeper and an unseen companion as they travel across the site in a not-so-distant future. They search for signals that can answer the question: "Who thought of putting a garden outside the forest?" Disoriented by an unstable landscape, the question is addressed cryptically through an encounter with a pine tree that sheds light on the history of the land.

Pasatiempos de un jardinero (What the Gardener Missed)

Among the living and the dead, there is a shared memory

LINEAGE

This project explores heterotopia, portraying the imprisonment experienced through immigration and resistance against unjust laws (whether in the US or Iran) with slogans like "Woman Life Freedom" or "My Body, My Choice."

A Feast in a Mirror

This project is narrated through the director’s personal experience of living in the remote Himalayan mountain town of Manali (a popular destination for shooting Bollywood film songs reeking of adventurous love and high romance). The work nterrogates thin layers of narrative practices that construct tableaus of high mountains as static objects and backdrops for second hand urban aspirations of happiness. The precarious reality of living in a highly sensitive ecosystem spins an adventure far removed from most imaginaries.

In the Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another

A pseudo-documentary which shows a cult of women dedicated to the veneration of the skull of the Peruvian Independence warrior Tomasa Ttito Condemayta, in the town of Acomayo, Peru, during 2021.

Heroínas

A brief essay on the origin of four small towns in rural Kansas and Oklahoma, told through each town’s respective water tower. Tall tales, public memorials, and roadside signage present in a region shadowed with settler-colonialism, imperial pursuits, identity fictions, and the threat of severe weather.

a fence is a fence but the clouds move freely

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