THERE IS ALWAYS A PIECE MISSING
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Documentary Portrait Film | 2009​
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Ethereal, poetic from the world of Tarkovsky. This portrait of a modern nomad is set in an imaginary space where memories, thoughts and ideas are packed and unpacked like the suitcase. Sound, light and shadow are used to evoke a sense of changing time and space. the voice whispers as if the subject of the portrait, a photographer is not sure about sharing or revealing the depths of his world.​
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Screened at:
London National Portrait Gallery | Liverpool Fact Cinema | Manchester Fact Cinema | Nottingham New Arts Exchange | Nottingham Broadway Cinema | London Waterman Cinema| Northampton Nanoplex
LOOK BACK IN SILENCE
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Documentary Double Portrait Film | 2009​
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A double portraits film of a married couple who did not believe in marriage way back in 1988, however due to exceptional circumstances they were forced to marry in order to keep one of them in the country.​
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Screened at:
London National Portrait Gallery | Liverpool Fact Cinema | Manchester Fact Cinema | Nottingham New Arts Exchange | Nottingham Broadway Cinema | London Waterman Cinema| Northampton Nanoplex
FATMA
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Documentary Portrait Film | 2012
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This documentary offers an intimate portrait of a remote village and its aging school near the Iraq–Iran border. Home to just over a hundred residents, the community endures daily life without electricity, gas, clean water, or proper roads. Dependent on rudimentary farming techniques and lacking government support, their resilience defines their survival.
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Beyond observation, the project became a collaboration. Over two months, I trained a small group of villagers in the fundamentals of filmmaking, enabling them to take ownership of their story. Within six months, they completed the filming themselves, gaining experience both in front of and behind the camera. The result is not only a film about the village but also a film made by the village, a collective act of storytelling and self-representation.
PORTRAIT OF WHITE
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Surrealist Double Portrait Film | 2009
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A surrealist docudrama tracing the love of Mirela and Peter, a Romanian couple who wander in search of the landscapes where affection might endure. Mirela believes love can only survive in silence rooted in the shade of trees, in the grace of nature, and in the modest shelter of an old house. Peter, however, carries his places within him. His visions are born from poetry, where love takes shape not in geography but in imagination itself. For him, love resides in the body, his own, Mirela’s, or even in the living body of a tree.
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Here, the couple’s search becomes a dialogue between the real and the imagined, between earthbound roots and ethereal dreams, inviting us to witness love as both a dwelling and a state of being.​
THE PHONE CALL
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Research Based Film | 2010
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Commissioned by AHRC / University of Nottingham​
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THE PHONE CALL
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Portrait of a Mask Maker | 2009
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up?
Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?
That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest?
Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?
Deformations simply do not exist "Pablo Picasso"
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An Absent Face is a portrait of the mask maker "Stephen Jon"
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