Nika Khanjani is an Iranian-American filmmaker, writer and educator based in Montreal. She began making experimental short and essay films in the mid-2000s. Her work is marked by extreme contrasts and an ethereal sense of beauty. She combines landscape photography, subtle sound design, and portraiture to evoke sensitive internal states in response to political and historical forces.
_Free World Pens_ is a film about family and solitary confinement. The film takes shape through letters from a man incarcerated in Texas, whose words echo in the mind of his sister as she walks freely through Montreal.
_Free World Pens_ is a film about family and solitary confinement. The film takes shape through letters from a man incarcerated in Texas, whose words echo in the mind of his sister as she walks freely through Montreal.