🎥 Visual description: [slow pan across Tehran skyline at dusk, voice memo crackle underneath]
If you’ve ever lived somewhere that wasn’t supposed to be yours — you’ll recognize the smell of this cut.
I’ve deleted more footage than I’ve kept. Rewritten the logline maybe twenty times. Somewhere along the way, 4 Years in Tehran stopped being a project and started being a practice. 4 Years in Tehran -v0.7- -Monia Sendicate-
What you’ll find here: → Frames that don’t look away → Voices that don’t perform for western gaze → A city that exists whether or not the world is watching
🔗 [Link to project / teaser / newsletter] 🎥 Visual description: [slow pan across Tehran skyline
Not a finale. Not a beginning. A version .
Thread ↓ / link in bio.
For the past 4 years, I’ve been documenting, unlearning, and witnessing a city that refuses to be reduced to headlines. This is not the Tehran of airport transit lounges or 60-second news segments. This is the Tehran of alleyway negotiations, rooftop silence before dawn, and the quiet mathematics of survival and joy.
v0.7 is the honest version. Not polished. Not neutral. Not done. Somewhere along the way, 4 Years in Tehran