Zelikha Zohra Shoja

Zelikha Zohra Shoja is an Afghan American artist and filmmaker working primarily in single-channel non-fiction and experimental modes. Her artistic practice is engaged in geopoetics, personal and collective histories of rupture, and the transmission of memory. She holds a BIS in Diaspora Studies from George Mason University and an MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University. Her films have screened at the Aurora Picture Show (Houston), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), Goethe Institute (Almaty and Tashkent), Millennium Film Workshop (New York), silent green Kulturquartier (Berlin), VIFF Centre (Toronto), among others.

Works showcased at MENA:

Bibi Amir
Experimental
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Short
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13
 mins
demarcations; you have black eyes
Experimental
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Short
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9
 mins
a stream-of-consciousness montage depicting collective bodies in a constant state of disruption, movement, processing, and grieving.
pal/imp/sest
Experimental
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Short
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33
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A choir of witnesses revisit a disrupted mourning session.