Paintings, films & visual inquiry.
An interdisciplinary visual practice centered on painting, moving image, and political imagination.
Shakiba Productions
Shakiba Productions is an interdisciplinary visual practice centered on painting, moving image, and political imagination.
Through paintings, films, photography, and writing, the work explores borders, memory, displacement, violence, and visual culture.
INTRODUCTION
Selected paintings
A curated selection of paintings exploring borders, memory, violence, displacement, and political imagination through symbolic visual worlds.
LATEST FILM — IN DEVELOPMENT
Architect
Architect is a research-driven documentary reconstructing the spatial and psychological conditions of offshore refugee detention.
The film draws from the lived experience of Elahe Zivardar, translating memory into architectural form through modelling, reconstruction, and moving image.
Combining documentary footage with spatial visualisation, Architect examines how detention environments are designed as systems of control—and how memory persists within these structures.
Status: In Development
Format: Feature Documentary (Hybrid)
As featured in Forbes
LATEST publication
Detention and Deportation in Europe
Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Bristol University Press — 2026
Featuring the opening poem Breaking News and original cover artwork by Elahe Zivardar.
An interdisciplinary volume examining detention regimes, forced migration, and abolitionist responses across Europe in the aftermath of COVID-19.
Upcoming Book Launch — June 2026
Elahe Zivardar will open the online event with a live poetry reading.
Details to be announced.