Paintings, films & visual inquiry.
An interdisciplinary visual practice centered on painting, moving image, and political imagination.
Shakiba Productions
Shakiba Productions is an interdisciplinary visual practice centered on painting, moving image, and political imagination.
Through paintings, films, photography, and writing, the work explores borders, memory, displacement, violence, and visual culture.
INTRODUCTION
Featured Announcement — Oxford Book Launch
Poetry Reading & Cover Artwork at Oxford Faculty of Law Book Launch
Bristol University Press — 2026
Opening the Oxford Faculty of Law launch of Detention and Deportation in Europe with a live reading of Breaking News, featured at the beginning of the book. The publication’s cover features Amethyst, a painting by Elahe Zivardar.
A new volume examining detention, deportation, borders, and human rights in contemporary Europe.
Hosted by the University of Oxford Faculty of Law.
Selected paintings
A curated selection of paintings exploring borders, memory, violence, displacement, and political imagination through symbolic visual worlds.
LATEST FILM — IN DEVELOPMENT
Architect
Architect is a research-driven documentary reconstructing the spatial and psychological conditions of offshore refugee detention through memory, modelling, and moving image.
Status: In Development
Format: Feature Documentary (Hybrid)
As featured in Forbes
latest publication
Detention and Deportation in Europe
Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Bristol University Press — 2026
Featuring the opening poem Breaking News and original cover artwork by Elahe Zivardar.
An interdisciplinary volume examining detention regimes, forced migration, and abolitionist responses across Europe in the aftermath of COVID-19.