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Producer, Co-Casting Director
“Postcards from the Orient" is a short art film inspired by 16th and 17th century European art of Ottoman Harems which depicted the Oriental woman as hypersexual and eternally suppressed. In reality, artists hired local women to pose for their paintings and photographs, cultivating an image of the Harems that was entirely contrived: living lives of uninterrupted pleasure, eating exotic foods, bathing, and adorned in luxurious fabrics. Instead, these local women were largely prostitutes or victims of war posing as the elite and their manufactured portrayal perpetuates detrimental misconceptions of Middle Eastern women that persist even to this day. This film aims to dismantle these illusions and offer a subtle critique of the colonial (and male) gaze, focusing on the eastern woman’s place, space, and subjectivity.
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