Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Saodat Ismailova's films have a mysterious, hypnotic quality, drawing on folklore, animism and traditional spiritual practices of Central Asia.

Ismailova invited us to her studio in Paris to talk about how her ubringing in post-Soviet Uzbekistan inspires her to reconnect with ancestral knowledge through archives, embroidery, and conversations with an extinct tiger...

Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor

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