A note on the ruins for visitors (2026)

Blending family archives, ancient artifacts, and contemporary collaborations across the Assyrian diaspora, A note on the ruins for visitors constructs a fragmented portrait of a community shaped by the Seyfo genocide and the ongoing destruction of its cultural heritage. Director Dicky Bahto weaves personal history with the 2015 Islamic State videos of the Mosul Museum’s destruction, exploring how memory survives in objects, language, and intergenerational dialogue.

The film moves between intimate domestic moments, museum ruins, and digital conversations among artists and relatives, refusing a linear narrative in favor of a poetic assemblage that asks what it means to rebuild a culture from its broken pieces.