SADAF SADRI Selected Work

I makes work that explores worldbuilding that prompts re

flection on gender, ideology, power, and relationality using digital technologies.
I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. In 2022, I founded the SPAM New Media Festival, a platform for experimental practices in art and technology in Seattle, where I currently live..

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Work

  1. De/Angular
  2. A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
  3. Zine of Spells
  4. Threads
  5. Listening Patterns
  6. It Happened On A Sunday
  7. Heavens by ML
  8. Cow
  9. Molly
  10. Noctural Baseline
  11. Gaze
Cow
Animated Gif from Cow, 2023
Style Transfer Test
Animated Gif from Cow, 2023



Video Still from Cow, 2023
Single Channel Video, 6:09
This video explores queerness as a site of  cultural critique  taking Dariush Mehrjui’s film گاو (Cow), adapted from Gholam Hossein Saedi’s Fear and Trembling, as its point of departure. In the original story, the protagonist, Mashahdi Hassan, slowly transforms into his cow after the villagers of Boloor instill in him a deep fear of loss. His attachment to possession and the threat of having it taken away, becomes the catalyst for his unraveling.

In this work, Boloor becomes a metaphor for difference, otherness, and queerness, exposing the fear that heteronormative social structures hold toward transformation, instability, and rupture.