MDOCS Storytellers' Institute Fellows Exhibit: Aggie Bazaz,Inheritance,

Tuesday, June 21 @ 7-9pm – Screening Inheritance 7-9pm directly followed by a Q&A with Director Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz Inheritance Film Inheritance (2012, 26 min) poetically explores the influence of political realities on lived, daily experience. In this personal documentary film, Iranian-born filmmaker, Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, intimately explores the contemporaneous events of Islamic Revolution and divorce that uprooted her family and embroiled them in the complicated process of diasporic identity formation in the U.S. Using her mother’s home as a metaphor for diasporic space, the filmmaker excavates the detritus that settled around the family as they traversed the uneven terrains of Revolution, divorce, and eventually, self-imposed exile. This story unfolds through a collage of images, forms, voices and eras. Archival images of the polling stations in which millions of Iranians voted for an Islamic Republic pipe in through a television watched by the filmmaker’s family in the U.S., thirty years later. Questions and photos documenting the filmmaker’s absent father are integrated into a poetic voice-over written and spoken by the filmmaker, looking back from the contemporary moment, aiming to recover a lost history, seeking to look forward. Learn more about the film and watch the trailer at www.aebrahimi.com