video • 5min • looping • 2018
The human body is made up mostly of water. It takes water to grow every food those bodies consume. During the summer of 2018 the Iraqi Government banned farmers from planting certain cereal crops due to water shortages. Many in the west look to Mesopotamia as the origin of civilization, but history does not remain stagnant, if what happened there is our collective past, what is happening now is also our future.
SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS:
Films From the South | Thessaloniki, Greece | October 2019
Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual | Guadalajara, Mexico | July 2019
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival | Las Cruces, NM, USA | March 2019
LIGHT YEAR 43, projection on Manhattan Bridge | New York, USA | November 2018, June 2019
EVOLVE/INVOLVE Exhibition | London, UK | October/November 2018
8mm/16mm/HD/MiniDV • Documentary • In progress
Jarmo is an archaeological site in Northern Iraq that is believed to be one of the earliest farming settlements. The political, personal and exploratory missions passing over this land for the past 10,000 years each contain their own set of agendas, sorrows and discoveries. Dancing between these transient personal or political moments and the long history of the earth below, Jarmo (and its consequences) investigates how humans have used the earth for survival, knowledge, power, and meaning throughout time.
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Shot over a series of trips to Iraq beginning in 2009, this project was born out of The Iraqi Seed Project, a cross-media dialogue about sustainable food production in Iraq.