Mahsa Talebiani
Sound
Biography
Mahsa Talebiani is an experimental filmmaker exploring the intersections of queerness and diaspora experience. Their work delves into the sensory explorations within intercultural cinema, often showcasing their own body to manifest an embodied vulnerability. Through performance, video art, and sculptural space, they challenge traditional narrative film structures and hierarchical productions, venturing into alternative trajectories within the medium.
Known For
Memories, regrets, and long-held grudges haunt two lifelong friends preparing their abandoned high school building for a 41st year reunion. Will the care they show each other and their dying town be enough to bring anyone back?
Reunion
A series of lighthearted performative vignettes that explore the duality of immigrant and queer life— the longing to return to the familiar geographic, cultural, and bodily coordinates of one's past, alongside an equally compelling desire to assimilate into a new culture and identity. Through a collection of absurd scenes depicting both the attempts and failures to fit in, the film illustrates the felt incongruities of this experience in a hybrid form.