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@robinriad

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experimental filmmaker + technician based in toronto

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a photo of me projecting at @united.unlimited with the iconic @_liftfilm projectors

come to @the8fest small gauge karaoke party at @gallerytpw to see me project with the same projector in the same outfit probably 💖🙏 by @robinriad

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glad 2025 is over but i had some good times such as projecting for the8fest w my pal poppi fp by @robinriad

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9 months ago

The very last of my Polaroid Spectra (Colour)
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Production date September 2018 by @robinriad

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The very last of my Polaroid Spectra (Black & White)
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Production date September 2018 by @robinriad

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Miya Miya Film Club is honoured to screen Abgad Hawaz, a striking short by @robinriad, as part of our 2025 Closing Night Program.

In this experimental minute-long film, the Arabic alphabet is taught in 28 steps, but what begins as a simple language lesson transforms into something far deeper. Each letter, hand-drawn onto 16mm film, becomes both sound and symbol, a reflection on voice, identity, and the act of reclaiming one’s language.

Created in response to online anti-Arab hate, Abgad Hawaz turns to care, creativity, and resistance through form. It’s a reminder that our languages are living, breathing things, vessels of history, sound, and belonging.

For Miya Miya, this film embodies what we celebrate: SWANA stories that resist erasure, that find poetry in the political, and strength in the smallest gestures of expression.

Abgad Hawaz screens as part of our Closing Night lineup! 10 short films honouring the beauty, depth, and complexity of our region and diaspora.

Come early, stay late, and bring your thoughts on what language means to you and what it carries when it speaks. taken in Mothership Studios by @robinriad

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@the8fest photoshoot w my frenemy @noahender2000 #filmisnotdead #butmyfeetare #longlivethe8fest by @robinriad

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looking for turtles and enjoying a sculpture garden, both shot on phoenix 2 by @robinriad

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i spent most of my vacation lounging in the sun 🍀☀️ by @robinriad

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a very cold day trip to niagara falls by @robinriad

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making the switch to water. did you guys know it was so good for you? i didn’t by @robinriad

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me with the famous bear in madrid ft a random guy #livelaughlaughorwhatever by @robinriad

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‎شو كانت حلوه الليالي

‎‏thank you thank you thank you to everyone I met during my time in Spain. I’m currently getting ready to leave and I’m holding back happy tears from such an incredible experience ❤️

‎‏thank you to @alvarofeldman for your collaboration, and for introducing me to this wonderful filmmaking community. i met so many great people, too many to name and made so many connections

‎‏thank you @acme.estudio @acme.obscura for your generosity, support, kindness and for all the delicious meals and coca cola ceros

‎‏thank you @l__a_v_ @denebmar for your hospitality, and for inviting me to your space

‎‏thank you @s8cinema @elenaduque @angelrueda8 for inviting me to represent the8fest in what is now my most favourite festival. and to all the filmmakers who allowed me to share their work in Madrid and in La Coruña

‎‏and thank you again to @alvarofeldman but also @satur4ted @nikhol___ @chau_chita @vickytronch @eterno_retorno @lebora.devy @dedaleras @sofiaptudela @sarumiras @violetas_p @0jorgit @jaimegsa_ @ferromagnetica @fernandavicensf @didac.huma @ro_raffaella and so many more for your friendship, laughs, and love. crazy to think I met most of you just a few weeks ago … feels like a lifetime!

‎‏see you sooner than soon Spain ;) hasta luego by @robinriad

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