Upcoming Works
ALWATWATA (Late 2026, Early 2027)
This ongoing project takes the form of a hybrid film and a research paper engaging with Alwatwata, an ancient (now scarcely practiced) pre-emptive depilatory method which uses bat’s blood as an anointment to deter hair growth. This practice is commonly performed on infants assigned female at birth across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt. This practice is sustained through oral accounts yet remains largely overlooked, often dismissed as superstition.
Editing, Sound Design, and Music Production
Synopsis The Assasination of The Wild Goat is an experimental short film that utilizes 19th-century Iranian archival photographs leaked online last year. The film delineates animals as marginalized historical agents, often excluded from dominant historical narratives. It portrays an autonomous government of animals led by a wild goat, whose collapse is driven by hunting. By combining these leaked archival photographs with online footage of hunting, the project reflects on history while shedding light on the ongoing threat that hunting poses to wild goats and rams in Iran.