Caged Hearts

Caged Hearts is a online immersive multi-disciplinary work developed by Farhad Bandesh, Mostafa Azimitabar and Sara Cowdell. A story from the close confines of a Mantra hotel room in Preston, a detention cell in an immigration detention centre, a two-story terrace house in the heart of Melbourne city, and the online space between us all. Sharing with audiences the reality of indefinite detention in all its horror, despair and mundanity and the moments of joy, hope and connection that are bundled in together.

This work is a vignette of the living history of Australia's heartless refugee policy.

Below is the trailer for Caged Hearts, the full length online experience was built for someone to watch on their smartphone and was 25 minutes long.

Created by Farhad Bandesh, Mostafa Azimitabar and Sara Cowdell

Produced by Sara Cowdell

Video Editing and Design by Carl Naus

This work was originally commissioned by City of Darebin for HYPERLOCAL as part of FUSE Spring 2020.