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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…
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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…
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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…
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“El Chinero, a Phantom Hill” is an experimental film documenting the untraceable 1916 death of Chinese and Asian exiles in Mexico.
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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…
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2018 / Hybrid experimental, 34 min. / Mexico – Sweden – Denmark A Zapotec man from the future tells the story of how in the 21st century a new invasion of “foreigners” was afflicting his village. While people in Europe were suffering a crisis that made them lose memory and a sense of their culture,…
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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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2018, 96min, 4K, Color, Mexico, Greece, Dominican Republic Veracruz in Mexico is the type of port city where everybody is from somewhere else and plans to head of by boat for yet another place. But Ramin from Iran is stuck: with little money, no knowledge of Spanish, few friends and only occasional, casual labouring work,…
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2017, 2 channel Video installation Video installation made from images taken from two Mexican films: “The Phantom train” (1927) and “The Hidden one” (1956) showing the trains and railroad system in a landscape in transition, and the modernization of Mexico, highlighting how people are constantly confronted with problems of territory and violence related to the…
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