Kimiya Jokar

Cinematic Sands: Back to the Desert of the Future: Cinematic Sands: explores desert environments in science fiction cinema through a zoetrope—a rotating cinema. This work examines the cultural significance of desert settings in popular media, touching on themes like orientalism and the portrayal of “the other.” It analyzes the implications of these settings in sci-fi, using the act of archiving within a dynamic, interactive format. This large-scale work blends digital and analogue techniques, encouraging audience engagement and reinterpreting iconic desert imagery to comment on cultural representation and visual storytelling in Western media.