Echolocation

The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.

Filmed and Edited by Nadia Shihab

8:38, HD, Turkman (Iraqi Turkish) and Arabic with English subtitles. 2021

SELECT SCREENINGS

Cairo International Film Festival, DOXA, SoLA Contemporary, LAAPFF, Artists Television Access, Black Star Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, additional screenings forthcoming

QUOTES

“Oscillating between recorded voice messages and stacked photographs, Echolocation is a layered experiment in seeking and reconstructing memory...a poignant exploration of nostalgia in the wake of sadness, and existence in the aftermath of change.”
- DB, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 2022.