An Armenian film director location scouts for an upcoming film on the history of the movement of ideas and contagion along the ancient trade networks which connected the historic Armenian capital of Ani to the world. Along the way he encounters the complex geopolitical realities which impact the region.
Oct 2020
A transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the film weaves historical facts and archival fabulations, and questions our common perceptions of time and space.
Nov 2022
