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What goes up (2025), 4K color video, 29 minutes

 
 

Homelanding as a verb. I jump on a trampoline in front of a Western backdrop of American military planes. Trying to get home, I get let down again and again.

The impossible desire to return home, when home has been changed by enormous forces. The first line is, "All my life, I have fought gravity." What does it mean to raise up and downfall. The downfall of a people. A government. A western road trip for the two crash sites of two Iraqi pilots who were training on F16s in Arizona. To see if the land bore traces of their impact. The road to Bagdad, Az, a tiny town with a giant mine. How to excavate the sky.