NEW - RACC Diaspora & Art Film Festival presents: Ira Eduardovna: THE IRON ROAD and TONGUE BEHIND TEETH (screenings and conversation)

THE IRON ROAD: Two channel video installation, 2021

Duration: 22 min.

The Iron Road reconstructs a forgotten, traumatic train journey that marked the artist's family's irreversible emigration from Soviet Uzbekistan, using staged photographs and actors to recover memories lost to trauma.

TONGUE BEHIND TEETH: Narrative short film, 2025

Duration: 25 min.

Natasha, a 15-year-old Bukharian immigrant in 1990s Israel pursues her ambitions through a relationship with a 21-year-old Russian newcomer, forcing her to confront the true cost of social climbing.

Ira Eduardovna (b. Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a video installation artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work reconstructs autobiographical narratives to explore themes of migration and displacement through non-linear storytelling. Drawing from personal history shaped by global events and political forces, she stages reenactments using both professional actors and family members. These reconstructed narratives investigate the fallibility of memory and question whether art can serve as a means of healing the trauma of displacement. Eduardovna is a recipient of numerous awards including The Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Ostrovsky Family Fund, and the Jerome Foundation. She has participated in artist residencies at LMCC, Smack Mellon, Artport Tel Aviv, and Art Omi. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Oi Futuro Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Museum Morsbroich (Germany), LOOP Video Art Fair (Barcelona), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) and The Frankfurt Jewish Museum. Eduardovna holds an MFA from Hunter College New York (2012).