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"My City Has No Monuments" (Lida Abdullah, 10', 2000) offers a fragmentary narrative expressing the attraction and repulsion Abdullah feels toward the legacy of colonialism and Abdullah's own life of the past 15 years as she moved from one place to another, at each step learning a new language and coming to terms with a new culture.

"Strange Day" (Omid Arabian, 5', 2002) is a meditation on violence and identity, inspired by the events of September 11th. "Offerings" (Farzad Karami, 7¹, 1999) is a reflection on war and chaos.

"Sanctuary" (Maryam Keshavarz, 17', 2001) is a short experimental narrative that explores the psychological negotiations of an Arab woman living in the U.S. through transgenerational imagery.

"Untitled" (Houman Mortazavi, 5', 2001) is an iconoclastic meditation on the world through found images.

"Ameh Jhan" (Jessica Shokrian, 11', 2001) is an Iranian American film in a simple style; as a poetic piece it blurs the line between documentary and narrative, using pace and visual detail to transform a daily trip to the market into a moving snapshot of the immigrant experience.

Bios

Lida Abdullah, a native of Kabul, Afghanistan, is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker who has participated in a number of group shows and solo exhibits in the U.S. and Europe. Omid Arabian is a writer and designer living in LA. He grew up in Tehran and Harlem. Farzad Karimi is a fine arts curator and filmmaker who received his master's at Cal Arts. Maryam Keshavarz is an Iranian-American photographer and filmmaker who grew up in New York and spent intermittent summers in the Middle East. Houman Mortazavi grew up in Iran and England and is one of the most sought-after visual artists of his generation. Jessica Shokrian, photographer and video artist, is an Iranian'American Angeleno who studied at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design.

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