Overview
Zheng Bo collaborates with seven Pakistani farmers living and working on a date palm farm outside Dubai to make a dance. The project celebrates the beauty of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and the skill of these stewards, highlighting intimate relations cultivated over millennia, vital to the economy and culture of the region. Phoenix underscores the contribution of diasporic farmers to regional agriculture, while also drawing attention to the growing phenomenon of climate-induced migration, which in the coming decades is estimated to affect over a billion people, many of them in Asia.
Year 2024
Studio Lahore Biennale Foundation
Director Zheng Bo
Crew Intzar Hussain (Music), Zheng Bo (Director), Mark Hobson (Director of Photography), Hisham Sharafeddine (Sound Recordist), Mark Hobson (Post Producer), Nadine El Khoury (Producer)
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