"There are images of me when i was a child and carefree, but this voice is my voice as an adult".

"Who can be blamed for their beliefs?"

"In 1953, J.C.R. Licklider, a computer scientist at Harvard, created the world´s first speech-understanding machine".

"Lately I´ve had reason to prepare a list of my sexual partners. Though i am young, the list is fairly substantial".

"I like making documentaries-documentary material is usually more interesting than anything i can imagine, and i don´ t have to be bothered with all the tiresome specifics of a fictional creation".

Inspired by Italo Calvino's short story by the eponymous title, the video self-reflects on the sensuality of the different mediums: video, b/w film, slide projection, while the different registers of sound (voice over and sound design), are constructed to create an at times cohesive and at times disjunctive narrative. The work also plays on notions of the autobiographical, while feminizing Calvino's text in a contemporary framework. Using documentary images from a personal archive as well as constructed images, this piece, like Calvino's, is a tale of love and technology.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like “Sharia Law in the U.S.A.” Their spiritual odyssey leads them to Pakistan, where they bring punk to the streets of Lahore and reconnect with Islam in a bold new way.