Films
From The River To The Sea: Zaynab Mohammed & Lesley Garlow
The empowered filmmaker – 8:24
A powerful film about Indigenous resilience, from Turtle Island to Palestine, and the ongoing struggles to protect cultural traditions. This film was made as a part of the Empowered Filmmaker in 100 Mile House, BC. First-time indigenous filmmakers were mentored through the production of a short film which they created within just 5 days of instruction by filmmaker and educator Farhan Umedaly @vovoproductions
Rural Stories from the SWANA Diaspora by Zaynab Mohammed
This series of films is in collaboration with nikta boroumand and was funded by SFU Radius with their participatory grant making initiative.
New Echoes in the Staircase: Zaynab Mohammed
The Nelson Museum – 11:47
New Echos in the Staircase is a mural residency project in the Ward Street Staircase at the Nelson Museum, in Nelson, British Columbia. It speaks to opening up of private spaces through the use of art. A Nelson Museum project, the videos were created by Carlo Alcos with the generous support of the Vancouver Foundation.
TRAILER: Are You Listening?
Zaynab Mohammed – 02:21
A one-woman show. A journey of sound, sight and story. How one woman loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, whilst navigating a terrain foreign to her ancestors. Being displaced, moved from land, uprooted, is intergenerational. How does a young woman who’s been colonised for centuries free herself?
Beneath the Surface
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History – 12:05
Local artists Zaynab Mohammed, Xochilt Ramirez, Shayna Jones and Jesse Pineiro, and local filmmaker, Carlo Alcos, produced “Beneath the Surface” as an artistic response to the Bunker which specifically considers the social injustices and accompanying emotions evoked by the setting and era. This Touchstones Nelson Museum project was made possible by the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of British Columbia.
Are We Listening?
BC Culture Days – 10:30
Poet Zaynab Mohammed asks, “Are We Listening?” Zaynab presents “Are We Listening?”— an endeavour which stems from her curiosity about the power of listening and what it means in relation to ourselves, to each other and to our natural environment. Through a series of interviews, Zaynab asks participants of this project, “What does listening mean to you? What are your thoughts and insights on listening? How do you listen? Why do you listen? When do you listen, and where does your listening happen within you?”
“The more we give. The more we have. Palestine you have returned us to our humanity. Reminded us of our privilege. Our duty now is to give what we have. Love with our might. Hold nothing back.”
– to give is to have by Zaynab Mohammed 2023