The Returning Hero-
2021-
Film and Installation-

The film plays with different forms of representation in which the Persian lion as a symbol of identity, power and heroism unfolds its meaning in Iranian culture.
Here I follow the lion figure during its transformation in different spheres of reality, in different media and contexts, and under different historical aspects. The story revolves around three main themes: The return of the Persian lion to its homeland from Britain after 80 years of extinction; a series of Chieftain tanks called The Lion of Iran, ordered in Britain in 1976 and never delivered due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and the concept of "lion Man" a metaphor in Farsi that refers to heroism.
The work consists of my documentaries along with found and archived video footage, songs, documents, interviews and daily news. in which it attempts to create a space where the viewer is confronted with various fragments of history that create a network of causes and clues to understand the complexity of the symbol.

009821 Projects, Tehran, May 2023
Utopische Intervention in Tempelhofer Landschaften, Cooperationwerkraum, Berlin, 2022
Berlin University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition of the Institute Art in Context, 2021