Video installation/performance, 2014 / 50 min. / Mexico El Grito (1968-1970) by Leobard López Aretche is one of the few movie testimonials from the student movement about 1968 and the brutal events on October 2nd in Tlatelolco. A collective document made clandestinely in the context of a repressive state. 1968: A Blind Archive takes images

2012, Fiction feature, 86 min./ Iran – France Ziba is an upper-class housewife from Teheran who apparently has her life in order. Yet every day she is exhausted and feels paralysed in her daily routine. She can’t make it clear to anyone what exactly is wrong with her. When the silent Ziba and her irritated
Photographs, drawings, 16mm film installation, objects, archives (2022) Book published in 2024 (Editorial Ñ, Mexico City, with the support of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporaneo) Who remembers those who died here? Were they abandoned or did they lose their way? Void and vanishing, the finitude of the archive. A name for an invisible place. This project

2013, 4min30sec, Super 8, Color / France Filmed in Super-8 during a demonstration of Kurds in Paris, Cem evokes the idea of a collective body. The “cem” or “jam” in Persian and Kurdish means being together, united; the term also refers to Sufi gatherings, always manifested through dance. Screenings Credits Filmed and edited by Bani

2010-2014 / Documentary essay, 94 min. / Iran – the Netherlands “A deep political analysis of one century of revolt and repression in Iran, and the various roles of images in this collective history. ‘The Silent Majority Speaks’ is, for me, one of the works that legitimates the existence of film, as for example ‘The

2022, 18min, Video + 16mm, Color, Mexico – USA Air, fire, gut. The accumulation of pressure will come out, yell out, call out, make itself known. Impulses and hopes, the breath comes together with the life force pulsing all around us. The leaves, the stems, the rhizomes continue to spread their sap throughout, no matter

2016 / Essay film, 45 min. / Dance performance / France “Exiles, refugees, undocumented migrants – whatever word we use to talk about it, the movement of human beings across the planet is a millennia-old and repetitive story, following the formations of our civilizations, their catastrophes and sometimes their downfalls.” By exploring the idea of
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