IN PRODUCTION

To Swallow the Sun (working title) is a two-channel video installation exploring the parallel and entangled histories of people, land, resources, and cultural property—histories shaped by extraction and erasure. 

Blending speculation, historical fiction, and documentary, this 30-minute film essay investigates the role of British Petroleum in the colonial modernization of southwestern Iran—transforming a rural landscape into a colonial outpost through exploitation of its oil reserves. It explores how the landscape and built environment of the region were reshaped by extractive practices—both mineral and cultural—leaving behind a terrain marked by ruination, spiritual contamination, dispossession, and resistance. 

Tracing the entanglements of nature, politics, and gender under colonial domination, the film turns toward the future to imagine the region not only as a site of historical violence, but as a space for mythical and unfathomable possibilities.