Director interviews + essays
For additional writing by Mariam Ghani on the process behind and context of WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED, please see:
“Field notes for ‘What we left unfinished’” in Ibraaz (reprinted in Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East)
“Filming the many Afghanistans” in the NY Review of Books online (reprinted in Art Asia Pacific, HIVE)
“The human dimension of archives” in Scope
For previous talks by and discussions with the director please see:
“Invisible Images” at UnionDocs
“Shahrazade in the Archives” at the Dhaka Art Summit
“The Archival Impulse: Collecting and Preserving the Moving Image in Asia” at MoMA
“National Imaginaries” at the Creative Time Summit, Stockholm
Afghan history / Afghan film history cheat sheet
