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.

Film Maker
Shihab, Nadia
Year
2021
Country
U.S.A.
Length
8
Language
English, Iraqi Turkman
Category
Arab, art & artists, Diaspora, Essay, Families, Identity, Immigration, Language, Memory, Time + Space, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
Animation, documentary, experimental

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