Latest Provocations & Heresies

Fucking heal me

PART 1 Water Pure Stillness without flavors of absolute total clarity my own light exposed as yours how I do understand my peace you actually deeply caring about what I feel certainties about presence, clarity about definitions of commitment and fidelity me feeling heard and seen you spit out the first, even though you love

They Don’t Feel Like We Do

Now, Washington and its commentariat, in 2026, have a brilliant new idea: The High Iranian Pain Threshold.

Scorched Earth | Official trailer

An Amsterdam art collective's ties to a reactionary philosopher force a devoted follower to face a dark truth: is her charismatic leader weaponizing radical art?

Out of the Iranian rubble into the cinematic frame

Smuggled out of the Iran Iraq War at age four with exactly two suitcases, Arash Sedighi channels the gritty survival of his refugee childhood into uncompromising British cinema

Notes from the underground [part 1/2]

The water coursing through the basement tubes calls me back to my work. It’s probably toilet water I’m hearing. The noise is reassuring.

O Iranians!

The antidote to a scorpion’s poison is not the venom of a snake.

Visual documentation of the beautiful and the damned