POP explores sisterhood, friendships and bonds that feel karmic. The film documents two sisters, Marium and Laila Vahed, as they spend a seemingly ordinary day trying to pass the time. Marium, the older sister, retreats into a book, while Laila, the younger and more restless sibling, struggles to connect with her sister.… ⊕

Mandaeans by Water is a micro-short documenting the voice of my grandmother who is one of the few remaining indigenous Iraqi-Mandaeans still practicing the religion today. Baptisms and water are a vital part of the community as they are associated with accessing heavenly realms and act as a bridge between the earth and the… ⊕

A collage of personal and public accounts, The Image Remains the Same contemplates water as an allegory of journeys filled with desire, belonging, hope, and demise stretching from the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles to the Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon, specifically the El-Mina port, where Ali El-Darsa speaks to… ⊕

This videotape titled F I L M evolved from an initial impulse to download film noir sequences without characters in the footage. My PIXABAY search instead yielded sequences of almost completely black (or almost completely white) film stocks. I decided to combine the specks and scratches of film footage with moving images of… ⊕

Land Marks is a video work consisting of twenty-four drawings. Twelve drawings are of the number twenty-seven and the other twelve of the number seventy-two. These are mirrored or reversible numbers. The sequence of drawings occurs thrice. Therefore there are seventy-two numbered drawings, followed by abstracted images which… ⊕