Through the 'click' sound of a camera shutter, a war photographer is transported back in time to battle. He recollects the traumatic visuals of war while taking photos in the park with his daughter. Her innocent eyes help to teach him to see beauty and life instead of explosions and bloodshed. War leaves permanent wounds on the body and mind, his daughter's honest optimism is the only thing that pulls him out of his PTSD.
When past and present become one melancholic dream, he has no choice but to review the memories left from the good old days to avoid the darkest reality of all time: war.
9,272.70 Miles catalyzes emotion, connecting with the universal human experience of migration, connection, love and loss.
Embracing the element of chance and offering symbolical interpretation, this video is a visual diary of an artist’s journey back to her childhood school in Dehkadeh, Iran. The empty rooms and their decayed elements resonate into history. In isolation, she explores places of memory, examines emoti...