RED minus 2

(Work in progress)

While in residency at Agapolis + Building180, Ala produced “Red minus 2”, an experimental multimedia performance staging based on the life of Reza Abdoh, an avant-garde Iranian playwright and director, who died of AIDS in 1995 at the age of 32. The film project is inspired by Iranian traditional theater genres that include Takht-e Hozi, Zoorkhaneh rituals, and Ta’zieh, with a drop of Ala’s personal touch, and is the first stage in the larger vision for an experimental feature-length film about Abdoh.