Synopsis for an impossible film. In 1998, two high school girls sent a letter to the first-ever women’s newspaper in Iran.

Razeh-del

Neatly chalked extracts and spoken fragments of Forugh Farrokhzad's radical poem Sin directly contradict the unembellished recordings of clerics instructing women to suppress their sexual predilections. How? By eating lettuce, of course.

I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin

Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Irani Bag

Two women lie in bed together. One tells the other the colorful memory of a date with a man in Tehran. Her story is inscribed on the screen, via superimpositions of images of embraces and flashes of Iranian films produced after the Islamic revolution.