Tara Najd Ahmadi

The experimental short film investigating an artist’s ongoing, daily, both conscious and subconscious struggle to remain creatively productive in an exasperating atmosphere.

This work explores the idea of resistance as an everyday life activity, using three basic foods: rice, eggs and pickles. A puppet gets boiled and cooked. After each cooking scene, the resistance of the puppet is measured with a cold scientific diagram.

A short film homage to art historian Douglas Crimp. In the 1970s, Crimp attempted to publish a cookbook but his project failed and the book was never published.

The artist talks to the camera, while the sound is not recorded. The silent talk is a response to the question ‘where do you think you are going?’ and points at the insufficiency of language at certain times.

Conversations with sleepless friends, nocturnal gazes out the window at dark streets and weightless dream sequences: on restless 16mm film, they overlap to a somnambulistic narrative to talk about what keeps us awake at night. After all, insomnia has long been a collective problem, tightly interwoven with the fears and insecurities of our era.

A stop motion animation shot on 16 mm black and white film. A wig wanders through a variety of texts and ideologies. She stumbles upon photos of Iranian writers and poets such as Forough Farokhzad, critical thinkers and philosophers such as Michel Foucault, and Dadaist artists such as Marcel Duchamp.

The experimental short film investigating an artist’s ongoing, daily, both conscious and subconscious struggle to remain creatively productive in an exasperating atmosphere.

This work explores the idea of resistance as an everyday life activity, using three basic foods: rice, eggs and pickles. A puppet gets boiled and cooked. After each cooking scene, the resistance of the puppet is measured with a cold scientific diagram.

A short film homage to art historian Douglas Crimp. In the 1970s, Crimp attempted to publish a cookbook but his project failed and the book was never published.

The artist talks to the camera, while the sound is not recorded. The silent talk is a response to the question ‘where do you think you are going?’ and points at the insufficiency of language at certain times.

Conversations with sleepless friends, nocturnal gazes out the window at dark streets and weightless dream sequences: on restless 16mm film, they overlap to a somnambulistic narrative to talk about what keeps us awake at night. After all, insomnia has long been a collective problem, tightly interwoven with the fears and insecurities of our era.

A stop motion animation shot on 16 mm black and white film. A wig wanders through a variety of texts and ideologies. She stumbles upon photos of Iranian writers and poets such as Forough Farokhzad, critical thinkers and philosophers such as Michel Foucault, and Dadaist artists such as Marcel Duchamp.

Short experimental documentary film about Azar, an Iranian computer engineer who, in the winter of 2017, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769, commonly known as the travel ban.

Short experimental documentary film about Azar, an Iranian computer engineer who, in the winter of 2017, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769, commonly known as the travel ban.

An experimental documentary about film and video preservation and the destiny of images that are left on their own. From the works of Dušan Makavejev to the videos of the Iranian revolution and the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, the film portrays the urge of images to resurface and be unveiled.

An experimental short film about drowning bodies, shot in black and white on a 16-mm film.