Angelo Salamanca

In the winter of 1998, the earth was overrun by many millennium prophets, whilst the suburbanites lived their suburban lives. Underground, artists and other vagabonds flourished, their activities illuminated by a dark and pure underground sky.

When Jina a Kurdish poet escapes her oppressive homeland in Western Iran, she takes her beloved’s birthday gift – “Girl with the Pearl Earring” translated into Farsi – with her on a journey to seek political asylum in Australia. Chancing upon a community library, the invitation to ‘take a book, leave a book’ forges a poignant connection between her new landscape and the home she has left behind.

Public Information Film aimed at teaching young children the basics of reporting unsafe situations.

When Jina a Kurdish poet escapes her oppressive homeland in Western Iran, she takes her beloved’s birthday gift – “Girl with the Pearl Earring” translated into Farsi – with her on a journey to seek political asylum in Australia. Chancing upon a community library, the invitation to ‘take a book, leave a book’ forges a poignant connection between her new landscape and the home she has left behind.

Public Information Film aimed at teaching young children the basics of reporting unsafe situations.