Mariam Ghani Movies

  • 2020
    The Forbidden Reel

    The Forbidden Reel

    The Forbidden Reel

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    According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be...

    The Forbidden Reel
  • 2024
    Dis-Ease

    Dis-Ease

    Dis-Ease

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    DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors,...

    Dis-Ease
  • 2019
    What We Left Unfinished

    What We Left Unfinished

    What We Left Unfinished

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    About five never completed films made between 1978 and 1992 before the backdrop of the various communist regimes that came to power in Afghanistan....

    What We Left Unfinished
  • 2022
    The Fire This Time

    The Fire This Time

    The Fire This Time

    02022HD

    A kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence. An archive constantly haunted by its possible...

    The Fire This Time
  • 2019
    It’s a Disaster!

    It’s a Disaster!

    It’s a Disaster!

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    It’s a Disaster! literalizes the overlaps between pop-cultural imaginaries of contagion, alien invasion, and climate disasters. Part of a...

    It’s a Disaster!
  • 2020
    Follow The Leader

    Follow The Leader

    Follow The Leader

    02020HD

    Short piece consisting of the spliced together leader of unfinished Afghani films.

    Follow The Leader
  • 2018
    When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved

    When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved

    When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved

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    Adapted from the spiritual journals of the Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1847–1857, a period during which the Pleasant Hill...

    When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved
  • 2013
    To Live

    To Live

    To Live

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    Adapted from the novel Bid Me To Live by the poet H.D. (written 1933–50, published 1960) and shot in houses occupied by military families on...

    To Live