Gilnaz Arzpeyma

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

Woman is the first part of a trilogy that, from the perspective of the Iranian diaspora, supports the feminist revolution in Iran. Using documentary techniques to highlight street protests, the film presents civil disobedience as a collective performance and probes the discourse around women, life, and freedom.

A quest to recreate childhood memories of cotton blowing, a disappearing craft.

Mechanical and organic loops morph into each other in an experimental exploration of saturation and breath as a never-ending quest of presence.

Mechanical and organic loops morph into each other in an experimental exploration of saturation and breath as a never-ending quest of presence.

An Experimental exploration of menstrual cycles. A collaboration with Naomi Dawn Mansfield and Lisa Bounouh.

Performances of two contemporary dancers are juxtaposed and reassembled in a frame by frame investigation, probing the self-perception of attraction and repulsion.

A stop-motion animated film depicting a cotton blower at work.