Echolocation is a film of voices distant and nearby: the rain in Oakland, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad, my aunts’ voices in What’s App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio. As fragments resonate and accumulate, spaces of loss are subsumed into new landscapes and forms.
Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her feature documentary JADDOLAND was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award. Her work has screened in venues internationally, including at Cinema du Réel, Images Festival, Walker Art Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Sursock Museum, Kassel Dokfest, DOXA, BlackStar, New Orleans Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival, among others. Nadia was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and worked as a community practitioner and affordable housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade before earning her MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. She is a Fulbright Scholar and is currently an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
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