Following her Per°Form Open Academy Closing Keynote, award-winning Uzbek filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova will embark on unpacking her film archives in the Per°Form Open Academy Studio.
Interweaving myths, rituality, and dreams within the tapestry of everyday life, Saodat’s films investigate the historically complex and layered culture of Central Asia which stand at the crossroads of diverse material histories and migratory legacies.
Conversation on the trajectory of tradition and landscape and screening of Stains of Oxus (2016).
Conversation on the trajectories of female universe and colonialism and screenings of Her Right (2020) and Chillahona (2022).
Conversation on the trajectory of living with the non-human and screening of The Haunted (2017).
An important voice within the first generation of Central Asian artists to come of age in the, post-Soviet era, Saodat Ismailova will embark on unpacking her most recent film archives.
Conversation on the trajectory of ecology and water mismanagement and screening of Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea (2004).
