“Babash” is a parrot who speaks mostly Farsi but sometimes mixes English and Azeri into his conversations. A singular language resulting from the place where he lives: a house in Los Angeles shared with an Iranian family. The same place where Behrouz Rae developed a friendship with Babash over the years. This short film is an associative portrait about a special relationship and the domestic surroundings in which it grew. An assemblage where household objects, daily movements and playful intimacies are mixed with a dauntless montage, precise sounds and a sensitive gaze. Observing this genuine cross-species friendship between Babash and Behrouz, listening to their shared invented language, it’s possible to grasp an equally shared and evocative sense of misplacement.
