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Festival 2025
The Red Chador: Genesis I
US, 2021

Expanded
Directed by
Anida Yoeu Ali
Running time
9 mins
Expanded

The Red Chador takes this rainbow path back to re-engage in a living dialogue on Islamophobia, queer identities, and otherness. This new iteration finds The Red Chador surrounded by a protective circle of six other performers, each cloaked in a unique long sequin chador. Together all seven performers or chadoras create a moving rainbow spectrum, an intentionally colorful spectacle to reclaim the gaze of the Muslim woman and extend solidarities to all forms of violence against marginalised bodies.

 


Tickets


6 May 2025, 7:00 PM
ESEA Community Centre 
Director Biography



Anida Yoeu Ali is an interdisciplinary artist whose works span performance, installation, new media, public encounters, and political agitation. Born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago, she is a first-generation American of mixed Malay, Cham, Khmer, and Thai ancestries. Working transnationally, Ali investigates the artistic, spiritual, and political collisions of her diasporic, hybrid identity with the resolve that in-betweenness is a powerful space for creation and provocation.

Programme Information



Screening as part of Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance.