Halabja,1988 2018
Halabja, 1988
A Film by Farideh Sakhaeifar
Dancer: Isabel Umali
Narrated by Maryam Ghoreishi
Cinematography: Yessica Curiel-Montoya and Vesta Partovi
Lighting: Yessica Curiel-Montoya
Music and Sound: Sadra Shahab
Choreography: Isabel Umali and Farideh Sakhaeifar
Costume designer: Isalina Sanchez
Narrative arrangement: Liam Billingham and Farideh Sakhaeifar
Resources:
The Kurdish victims caught unaware by cyanide, by David Hirst, The Guardian
The Great Terror, by Jeffrey Goldberg, New Yorker
Halabja survivors seek justice, by Caroline Hawley, BBC
The Inconvenient Atrocity: The Chemical Weapons attack on the Kurds of Halabja, Iraq, by Susan Schuurman
Nasreen Abdel Qadir Muhammad
Bakhtiar
Aras Abed
and other survivors of the attack.
Thank you
Shaun Seneviratne
Maryam Darvishi
Shulva Azad
Susan Schuurman
Jennifer Gerow
BRIC
Queens Museum Studio Program
Residency Unlimited