– Evaporation/ -abyss/ -Four Seasons Cypress

Application summary

I intend to pursue three projects simultaneously during my two-month residency in Saari Residence. One of them is a playwriting project, and part of it has progressed. In this project, I work with individuals who have deliberately disappeared to start a new life. I have spent some time gathering materials at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and arranging interviews with other people. This project is important to me because I want to give a voice to those who are voiceless. The work on this project will be completed by editing the interviews and structuring it (I estimate will take about a month). Another project of mine is related to my recent film, which I have recently finished filming in Iran, and I am now handling its distribution. I will spend part of my residency time presenting my short film project. This film explores the environmental impacts of drought and follows the last surviving woman of a village who strives to stay and preserve her agricultural land. And my other project, which involves writing a performance poem about nature, will involve recording sounds from the environment, creating natural sounds, and ultimately performing the poem. I will write this performance poem with memories of my birthplace, which hosts one of the oldest living trees in the world (the Sarv-e Abarkuh tree).