ZELIKHA ZOHRA SHOJA

pal/imp/sest (2024)

Single-channel digital video, color, stereo sound
32'38"
Essay film

[a revisitation of a visitation]

A choir of witnesses revisit a disrupted mourning session. The polyphonic narration oscillates between absurd and profound / personal and found footage of how grief rituals manifest. Delving into a series of ruptures, possessions, and dispossessions is a geopoetic witnessing of colliding and entangled histories, traumas, and bodies through unfolding violence on Onondaga land, Afghanistan, and Palestine.

screenings 

2024

Close Up Film Festival, Port Moody, Canada

MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, St. Paul, MN

Lightbeams Under a Bridge Vol. 7,  Street Soundsystem, Kings Cross, London, UK

Requisite Acts, Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

Unsettled, Unbridled, Unbound, Nancy Cantor Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY

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