A note on the ruins for visitors

A note on the ruins for visitors offers a deeply personal portrait of the Assyrian community, assembled from fragments of material drawn from Bahto's family history, ancient artifacts, and collaborations with contemporary diaspora artists. Bahto explains that after Daesh invaded Iraq and released footage of themselves destroying ancient Assyrian artworks in the Mosul Museum, he began to reflect more deeply on his relationship to history as the grandchild of Seyfo survivors, recognizing that the genocide had not ended. The film probes the materiality of cultural memory alongside its intimate and spiritual dimensions, embodying the rebuilding of a community and a renewed connection to culture that honors the past while insisting on an open, forward-looking future.