1+1=3 (Yek balavi yek mosavi seh), Short Poetic Documentary, 9 mins, DV, 2003

Eight women, three cultures, one conversation. A conversation within the third space that living within two cultures creates. Based on extracts from interviews with British-Iranian women on personal culture and memory, this film is a poetic celebration and evocation of cross-over culture and identity.

Awarded second prize, ICA Best Short Film of the Festival at the Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA London January 2004. Premiered at "Iranian shorts", Portobello Film Festival, 2003.

Screened at the 291Gallery, London and the "LA Freewaves Festival" in 2005 and featured online together with an interview about the film.

"A film of outstanding beauty, great longing and a clearly personal statement' , Jane Giles, ICA Head of Cinema.

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Ramadan experiments- 2D work, 2003

A series of collages  made using footage shot from Iranian TV during Ramadan in 1998 using print-outs, tracing paper, pencil and crayon.

I was fasting when I made these and wanted to see how this experience would affect my image making, I intend to resume this series this year.

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