Three experimental films by Nikta Mohammadi

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Creator: Nikta Mohammadi
Curated by: collapse.systems
Program notes: Parham Ghalamdar
Publisher: collapse.systems
Courtesy: the artist

Tehran-born and West Yorkshire based, Nikta Mohammadi is an artist and filmmaker whose work knots speculative memory to the hard facts of place. Her moving image practice builds immersive, performative films and installations that treat the countryside as a charged site rather than a pastoral backdrop. Drawing on folklore, ritual, and myth from Iran and Yorkshire, she tests how private and public histories thread through land, and how displacement recalibrates seeing. The Lowry commissioned Memory Stone as her first institutional solo presentation.

Memory Stone and its companion installation conjure an alternate Northern landscape animated by yarns, cobwebs, power lines, and a visceral sound world. Through these tensile motifs Mohammadi probes the slip between documentary and fiction, the intimate and the political, and the uneasy dream logic that can structure migrant experience. The work rejects the idea that rural space is timeless or innocent, recasting the field as a vessel for absence, loss, and unfinished stories. Mohammadi describes the project as turning an internal landscape outward.

While Memory Stone is not available online, we present related films such as Prologue, Blood Lines, and Blood Moon. Across these works she stays committed to precise composition, slow tension, and a choreography of touch, thread, and terrain. Her practice is research led, collaborative when necessary, and guided by an ethics of attention to bodies that move through and against place. The result is a cinema of resonance, where memory is not simply recalled but made present:

Prologue (2022)