Every visualisation of the selected videos to launch PAV will be for free until October 1, 2023, thanks to the generous contribution of the featured artists.
Salomeya Bauer is an independent documentary filmmaker, poet, painter, performance artist and activist. Originally from Tbilisi, but displaced from Georgia in the earlier 90s due to the Civil War. In 2014, after graduation from VGIK she returned to Tbilisi where she created several documentaries, short fiction and experimental movies. Salomeya participated in various residencies, festivals and exhibitions around the world. She is an AWID member and her artwork was included in 2024 and 2025 feminist calendars. For the Global Feminist Pitch 2023, she created a graphic novel on women in social processes in the 90s in Georgia. This novel was inspired by her mother’s generation and their struggle which is now connected with our generation and current political situation in Georgia.
Pari Banu Asgar is a visual and performance artist. Identifying as a transgender artist, she weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons, and personal photographs to explore themes of identity and gender, as well as tenderness and violence.
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The Virgin Seed is a collaborative experimental performative film, which was created by Salomeya Bauer and Pari Banu Asgar in the frame of the “NoBorderland” residency in Tskaltubo, Georgia, 2022. The film aims to highlight the idea of the childhood and parental traumas of those who do not know how to accept their queer child. It is a metaphor for the circle of life.
Virgin Seed. Mother’s manifesto:
I gave birth to you, but no one told me who you would be, or who you would want to be. No one taught me how to protect you.
I have to teach you how to survive in this society. Should I become a part of this society to give you a lesson? Or should we go to a desert island so that you won't have any reason to hate me when you grow up? Should I put you in an aquarium to hide your fragile body from all predatory fish, which will evaluate you and place you according to their standards?
Compassion does not come without pain. Empathy is mistakes that have become lessons. I want to be your friend.
But society tells me that I should be your borderland. If you get lost, I have to find you, if you make a mistake, I have to justify you. Or punish.
They say I have to teach you how to survive. But I want to teach you how to love. Love that does not bring pain, love that forgives everything and accepts everyone.
