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Transmission
After a deadly car crash, a queer activist couple are flung into parallel realities and must embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.
Where Am I From? أنا من وين؟
Where Am I From? (Ana Min Wein?) is a short film and visual diary that explores the director's identity using two different voices, her own and an AI narrator.
Speculations on Capture
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London has one of the largest collections of Islamic art in the world. Allahyari’s poetic film essay explores the stories of astronomical instruments made in Iran and Pakistan and now held at the V&A. Their journeys reflect imperial histories that have shaped the V&A’s collections. Allahyari expands on these partially told tales and speculates on the encounters that have been lost.
Hiding Our Faces Like a Dancing Wind
How do we disappear in the digital age? this is a project that works with the facial recognition technologies in smart devices and its historical background in the colonial practices.This work recalls colonial mechanisms of racial classifications and the construction of historical narratives.
Istikhara Dream Cycle
An endless conversation held between two entities, the Dreamer and the Interpreter of Dreams. Their discourse is formed through a generative language model trained on the English translation of Ibn Sirin’s 7th century oneiric manual, The Interpretation of Dreams. Through a series of questions and answers, the Dreamer poses increasingly challenging and self-implicating questions, seeking guidance to navigate the moral and spiritual complexities of modern life.
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ANCESTRAL COMPUTATION assembles works that counter the epistemes of Western technoscience, from across the SWANA region and its diasporic time-spaces. These works call forth ancestral intelligences, inheriting forms of worldmaking surfaced from the lacunae of omissive datasets and archives of dispossession. They traverse algorithmic dream divination; develop tools for upending classificatory protocols; evade technologies of capture; and conjure precolonial deities through radio transmissions. They invoke alternate temporalities, rejecting the consignment of non-Western technologies to the dustbins of media history.   


ANCESTRAL COMPUTATION is curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and is co-presented by ArteEast and e-flux. This program is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 20 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. The program will be presented in-person at e-flux, on October 21st starting at 7 pm, for more information visit e-flux.com. The screening will be followed by a discussion between artist Nouf Aljowaysir and the curator. The full ANCESTRAL INTELLIGENCES program will be available online on artearchive.org from October 21 - 31, 2025. This program expands on the screening Ancestral Intelligences, hosted at Cambridge University by Cambridge Film & Screen and Cambridge Visual Culture. Ancestral Intelligences was curated by Mashinka Hakopian in conversation with Kareem Estefan.

K and L are cultural conservationists working in a not-so-distant future to preserve the artifacts and histories that are being systematically destroyed by a totalitarian government. When they are in a deadly car accident, time splinters into parallel realities, separating them. Each enters a reality where one dies while the other lives, and they embark on a search between worlds to find each other again.


About the Filmmakers

Kamee Abrahamian holds a BFA/BA in film and political science (Concordia University), an MA in expressive art therapy (European Graduate Institute), and an MA/PhD in Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco Psychologies (Pacifica Graduate Institute). Their doctoral research explored legacies of relational ontologies and ethics of care by diasporic-SWANA women and queers. Kamee has created, produced, toured, and presented a vast body of work including narrative & documentary film, visual & media art, staged & immersive performances, exhibitions, magazines, anthologies, workshops, festivals, advocacy campaigns, and podcasts. Their projects have been supported by local and national funding bodies across Canada, USA and Armenia. They’re a Pushcart nominated writer, a Lambda-awarded playwright, and an alumni resident at VONA, Banff Center for Arts, and DocX (Duke University). The documentaries they’ve worked on with Oolik Productions have been supported by Sundance, Visions du Réel, HotDocs, and Catapult. Their short film Transmission (2019) – the first known Armenian science fiction film – premiered at BFI FLARE, and their documentary Symptom (2024) premiered at the SF Doc Fest. Most recently, received the 2025 Creative Capital Award, published a children’s book (The Brighter I Shine) and organized a multi-day arts program for a gathering of 4000 global-south feminist activists in Bangkok (AWID Forum 2024). For the screen, they are currently developing a short film anthology (Portals), a limited series (Ensouled) and a feature film (We Are Our Mountains). They are also touring a mixed-media monument project for Western Armenians (Flesh, Immemorial) and writing a graphic novel based on their experiences as a new, queer, neuro-spicy mother called Queer Motherhood is Fucking Magic.


Lee Williams Boudakian (uses they, them, theirs pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, producer, facilitator, and consultant based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. Lee’s work emerges from their experiences as a queer, trans, mixed race settler born into an immigrant family. Their work is critical and necessarily intersectional. Lee is invested in art and storytelling that integrates ancestral and cultural herstories; grapples with our current worlds; and visions into futures that centre the lives and stories of those of us currently living on the fringe and in the margins. As of 2016, Lee has been working under ShapeShift Arts and Kalik. Both of these projects house their creative collaborations and represent models for how they are currently building an arts practice for interdisciplinary collaborative work


Anahid Yahjian is an independent writer, director and producer of experimental, documentary and narrative cinema. Her work is driven by questioning and pursuit: of history, of power, of memory, of liminality, of the surreal and the sublime. Her commitment to telling true stories (even if they come from her imagination) was shaped by an early love for visual storytelling that was formalized in college and took flight during her coming of age in Armenia. There, she produced the internationally awarded narrative short 140 Drams (Camerimage, Clermont-Ferrand), laid the creative groundwork for the feature documentary Spiral (IDFA Bertha Fund 2015, Golden Apricot) and shot and directed the viral digital documentary LEVON: A Wondrous Life. Since returning to Los Angeles, she shot and directed the experimental cine-triptych, Corpus Callosum and directed the narrative science-fiction short Transmission (BFI Flare, Vancouver QFF). She was later commissioned by the City of Glendale’s ReflectSpace gallery to create the docu-memoir Hishé. Her latest work is the hybrid/experimental documentary Domestic Demon. When not creating her own work, she directs branded content and music videos for clients such as AMC Networks, Amazon Music and Joyful Noise Recordings. Recently, she also supervised post production on televised series and digital content for A24, Netflix, Vice and Spotify.


Emily Mkrtichian is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from a displaced, diasporic family who explores alternative archives and visionary futures of the SWANA region. Her films include the first Armenian sci-fi film, Transmission, which premiered at the BFI Flare Film Festival, and the feature documentary THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT, which premiered at True/False and won several awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Golden Apricot Film Festival and the Audience Award and Jury Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. In addition to her films, Emily's multimedia installation Luys i Luso, created in collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, has been exhibited in museums, concert halls, and public spaces around the globe. Emily has been an LA Arts Activation Fund recipient, A Locarno Film Festival Open Doors fellow, a UnionDocs Summer Lab Fellow, and participated in the Torino Film Creative Producing Lab. She is a recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital award, a DocX Fellow at Duke University, and an alumni of the Sundance Institute. She currently splits her time between the US and Armenia.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    English, Armenian
  • Country
    United States, Canada
  • Genre
    Science Fiction
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Director
    Anahid Yahjian, Emily Mkrtichian, Kamee Abrahamian, Lee Williams Boudakian
  • Screenwriter
    Anahid Yahjian, Emily Mkrtichian, Kamee Abrahamian, Lee Williams Boudakian
  • Producer
    Anahid Yahjian, Emily Mkrtichian, Kamee Abrahamian, Lee Williams Boudakian
  • Filmmaker
    Anahid Yahjian, Emily Mkrtichian, Kamee Abrahamian, Lee Williams Boudakian
  • Cast
    Kamee Abrahamian, Lee Williams Boudakian, Sidony O’neal
  • Cinematographer
    Moira Morel
  • Editor
    Megan Pollin
  • Music
    Armen Bazarian, OHMME
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