Synopsis
This short, autobiographical documentary combines phone monologues, dashboard camera footage, and visual accounts from social media to make a unique, inside look into the life of an up-and-coming female artist from Baghdad who inevitably crosses paths with political turmoil. Munaf documents her journey from her attempts at creating contemporary art in a very limiting environment, the ISIS invasion, and her emigration to Turkey to the invasion of Ukraine where her parents emigrated to.“We artists always get death threats and threats of violence. We bother them. They hate us and see us as an easy target. This is a subject people don't talk about because it's an everyday thing. Someone gets killed and the next day you have to go to work as if nothing happened.” — Sarah Munaf---Source: Journey Inside the City 2:35-3:03
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