Sit Around the Fire

Project details

Sit Around the Fire

Project details

Summary

A live audiovisual work moving from a solitary, embodied experience towards a collective one. Across landscape, ritual, labour, music and movement, the work looks at one recurring human impulse: to gather.

category

Music Video

Role

Live audiovisual performance

client

The Hackney Room, London

year

2026

credits

• Music: ANNA, I See Miracles Everywhere; Bicep, Apricots. • Musiques et Rites de Perse: The Dervishes of Najjar. Images and sound by Priscilla Telmon. Produced by Petites Planètes / Vincent Moon. Courtesy of Petites Planètes. Vimeo • Musiques et Rites de Perse: Zoorkhaneh. Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes, filmed at Saheb Al-Zaman Zurkhaneh, Yazd. Courtesy of Petites Planètes. Vimeo • Zagros. Directed and produced by Shahab Mihandoust and Ariane Lorrain. Courtesy of the filmmakers. Shahab Mihandoust • Dingomaro. Directed by Kamran Heidari. Courtesy of Kamran Heidari / rights holders. Vimeo • Nowruz. Directed by Naghmeh Pour, produced by Sara Samsøe Moghaddas / New Land. Courtesy of the filmmakers. Vimeo • Flatland. Directed by Alireza Keymanesh and Amir Pousti, produced by 33Projects. Courtesy of the filmmakers. Keymanesh Website • Music of the Bakhshis of Khorasan. Directed by Behrooz Vojdani and Hamid Angaji; produced by the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization. Courtesy of ICHHTO / UNESCO. UNESCO • Qālišuyān Rituals of Mašhad-e Ardehāl in Kāšān. Courtesy of ICHHTO / UNESCO. ICH UNESCO • Sadeh / Sada Celebration. Courtesy of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. ICH UNESCO • Castells. Directed by Pedro & James, James Worsley and Pedro de la Fuente, produced by Autobahn. Courtesy of the filmmakers. Vimeo • Every True Person of Kalofer Without Freedom Can't Live. Directed by Joya Berrow, produced for NOWNESS. Courtesy of Joya Berrow / NOWNESS. Vimeo Additional archival, documentary and ritual imagery appears courtesy of the respective filmmakers, communities, archives and rights holders.

© 2026 Roozbeh Misaghi

© 2026 Roozbeh Misaghi

© 2026 Roozbeh Misaghi