A speculative film essay structured as a letter to Iranian cartoonist Kambiz Derambakhsh, bringing archival drawings, childhood memory and the political conditions of war into a fragile Brieftopian relation.

2017–ongoingArchival research, photography, installation and artistic publication The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole begins with a photographic archive created by Gholamreza Amirbegi, Noori’s grandfather, in southwest Tehran between 1956 and 1968. Working as an itinerant photographer, Amirbegi portrayed families, workers and neighbourhood life during a period of rapid urban expansion. Many of the...

2017–2021Film essay, 23 min 21 sec, Persian and English, colour, stereo On the Dermis of History begins with the Palestine Monument at the intersection of Felestin and Talaghani Streets in central Tehran. Designed by Nader Qashghaie and inaugurated in 1990, the bronze-and-cement sculpture commemorates the Palestinian struggle and the First Intifada. It was the first...

2023–2024Film essay, 18 minutes, Arabic, colour, stereoCo-directed, produced and researched with Magnus Bärtås On Hospitality: Layla Al-Attar and Hotel Al-Rasheed is a necromantic film essay centred on the Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar and a luxury hotel constructed in Baghdad by a large network of Swedish companies led by Skanska. The hotel was intended to host...

A site-specific monument series that transforms an absent animated citizen into an open structure for play, gathering and unfinished commemoration.

A long-term pedagogical and artistic research platform developed with communities in Ibrahim Hyderi and the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum.

Photographic and archival research connecting Karachi’s coastline, boatbuilding and historical image-worlds through speculative fabulation.

A polyphonic multi-channel installation developed with René León-Rosales from interviews with young anti-racist and social-justice activists in Sweden.