Sing for Me
| dc.contributor.advisor | Longfellow, Brenda | |
| dc.creator | Waham, Sama | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-16T19:24:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-12-16T19:24:42Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015-08-18 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-12-16 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-16T19:24:42Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Film And Video | |
| dc.degree.level | Master's | |
| dc.degree.name | MFA - Master of Fine Arts | |
| dc.description.abstract | "Sing For Me" is a contemplation of the notion of belonging, connecting with heritage in the form of an inherited nostalgia, while investigating the viewpoint of fractured diasporic identities and ethnic solidarity, and meditating on a fading ancient practice that sends its roots back to the depth of Babylonian history. A personal reflexive lens that departs from loss and follows a river to meet Baghdad, the film travels through shared family memory, a collage of stories and old footage that provide a glimpse of Iraq’s modern history and its defeated dreams of a modern and just society, broken by decades of severe dictatorship that have led to a culture of violence, ongoing genocides and religious extremism. The journey is guided by a familiar voice from the past, found on an old audiotape in an abandoned box, to a new exposition of ‘home’. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/30705 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
| dc.subject | Film studies | |
| dc.subject | Fine arts | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Iraq | |
| dc.subject.keywords | family | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Mandaeanism | |
| dc.subject.keywords | History | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Diaspora | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Identity | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Minorities | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Experimental | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Documentary | |
| dc.title | Sing for Me | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |