Exploring Home (2021)

Exploring Home is an intimate, virtual reality performance about connection, identity, emotional heritage, shame, destruction, love and perspective. Today's Iran is disabling creativity through control and restrictions. This immersive, audio-visual journey is an artistic collaboration between three individuals that are not accepted in their country of heritage-or from another perspective-not accepting the rules of their country of heritage. The creators of this piece found a home in Europe. But do they belong? With Exploring Home the director opens a window into how it feels to grow up with the influences of a society where people fear to express themselves freely. She wants to build awareness and empathy around restrictions and political sanctions. Around personal stories. All through our lives we need to belong. It is central to human nature.