I am a 3rd year international student at OCAD University, in the Experimental Animation Program. But most of all, I am an artist who loves creating and telling stories that explore human emotions, experiences and connections.
DAYDREAM
Animation, 1080px, 2026
Before the conception of this work, I was in a state of exhaustion and pressure from all the tasks I needed to do. I was juggling both my personal life, school life, and work life, trying to succeed in all of them. Then, on top of everything else. I was assigned to make a short film. I was burnt out and completely dry of ideas.
When I would shut down to rest, all I could think about was the image of me floating away into the skies, away from all my responsibilities. Free, as a bird, without worrying about the ticking clock that announced the passage of time and deadlines. And then it hit me; what if I make a film about that daydream!
This short film has become a permanent record of my conflicting feelings about work, duty, exhaustion, making me question how I lived, was living, and will want to live life in the future.
Home (خونه)
2D and 3D animation, 1920*1080px, 24 fps, 4:15 long, 2026
Directed by Sina Labaff
Where is home? What is home? These are questions that Home (خونه) doesn’t try to answer. Instead, it sits with them, and invites the viewer to do the same.
The idea grew out of time spent away from Iran, watching old memories of home blur into new ones made elsewhere. That’s when home started to feel like something bigger than a place of birth. Something you carry, something that shifts.
Home is a mixed media animated installation, warm and dreamlike in its feeling, finding its own visual language through the making of it. To deepen that experience, viewers are invited to watch it lying down. There is something about that position, open, still, a little vulnerable, that felt right for what the work is asking of people. To really let it in.
What has been happening in Iran since we began has quietly changed the weight of all of this, and we can’t pretend otherwise. We hope that everyone who encounters this work can feel the warmth that lives inside it. The warmth of everyone who made it, and everyone who trusted us enough to share a piece of what home means to them.