ZELIKHA ZOHRA SHOJA

demarcations; you have black eyes (cheshme siya dari) (2023)

Single-channel digital video, color, stereo sound

9'12"

Titled after a song by Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir, you have black eyes is a stream-of-consciousness montage depicting collective bodies from ants to human kin in a constant state of disruption, movement, processing, and grieving. The work celebrates Afghan bodies as a historical, domestic site of resistance through dance and movement.

Installation view. Lightbeams Under a Bridge Vol. 8, Street Soundsystem, Kings Cross, London, UK.

screenings

2024

Ecologies of Collapse, VIDEOCLUB, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany

Cactus Club Independent Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI

Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO

Almaty Underground Screening Series, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 

Lightbeams Under a Bridge Vol. 8, Street Soundsystem, London, UK 

Youth Pastor is a Narc 2.0, The Infernal Grove, Syracuse, NY

Manlius Cinema, Manlius, NY

MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada 

2023

Strangloscope Experimental Video International Festival, Centro Itajaí, Brazil

Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY 

technowruz, Nowadays, New York, NY

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