Shy Bride Video Services
About
Press
2021, Karachi-Paris
Experimental video art commentary on how Western politics shape our lives in Asia. My grandmother immigrated in the 1960s from Baghdad, Iraq to Karachi, Pakistan. She finds her childhood Baghdad home using Google Earth on my computer, guiding me auditorily, and finds the landscape changed. This is a vignette of the immigrant experience, orienting oneself with the past, the politics of the present, and the emotionality of new technology. I explore themes of memory, diaspora, and appropriation of Eastern environments. “Bridges burnt” was screened at UnionDocs’ event, “What is Asia?” in New York City in May 2022, alongside the work of other Asian female artists.