(Chibayish 2022)

Content: Alia Farid’s recent work examines how nature in southern Iraq has, since the advent of modernity, been mobilised as a political tool. Her new film Chibayish was recorded in the marshlands of southern Iraq, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in a region engulfed by oil infrastructure and industrial waste. It captures the artist’s exchanges with three young residents as they map the community that inhabits the marsh, and belt out calls to the buffalo that roam its waters. Mixing footage with CGI animation, Chibayish comes to explore cultural identity, history, colonialism and the right to remain.

Countries:

Iraq

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

25 minutes

Year:

2022

Directors:

Alia Farid

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Production companies:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Actors:

Themselves

Themselves

Themselves

Crews:

Director of Photography

Co-Editor

Sound Designer

Color Grading

Director