A departure
2025, 2’ - 16mm to digital.
'A departure' begins with a question: how do we navigate on disappearing rivers, seas, sources, bodies of water endangered by neo-colonial extraction? The film responds to the call of Sohrab Sepehri's poem 'Beyond the Seas' and invites the viewers to build their own paper boat.
Commissioned by Open City Documentary Film Festival for the 2025 festival trailer.
Performance: GolCHER.
Camera: Daniel Owusu
Writing & editing: Niki Kohandel
Boat architects: Frea Xinyi Lei & Daniel Owusu
Boat musicians: Bint M’Bareh & Afsaneh
2025, 2’ - 16mm to digital.
'A departure' begins with a question: how do we navigate on disappearing rivers, seas, sources, bodies of water endangered by neo-colonial extraction? The film responds to the call of Sohrab Sepehri's poem 'Beyond the Seas' and invites the viewers to build their own paper boat.
Commissioned by Open City Documentary Film Festival for the 2025 festival trailer.
Performance: GolCHER.
Camera: Daniel Owusu
Writing & editing: Niki Kohandel
Boat architects: Frea Xinyi Lei & Daniel Owusu
Boat musicians: Bint M’Bareh & Afsaneh




Upcoming Screenings:
Selected 15. Nominated by the shortlisted artists of the Film London Jarman Award 2024. Curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).
5th June 2025, Fabrica, Brighton.
12th June, CCA Glasgow.
13-14th June, Somerset House, London.
25th June, Nottingham Contemporary.