If Hafez Wrote a Haiku for Cowboys

Entirely edited as a split-screen cinematic experience,“If Hafez Wrote a Haiku for Cowboys” is a subversive take on road movies that spans eight widely disparate locations around the globe. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style, this visual and audio haiku drops us in 20 fictional scenes of regret, longing, chance meeting and love.The stories captured across a split-screen experience include a Japanese father awkwardly reconnecting with his estranged daughter, a young Iranian woman who doggedly shops for a red car to impress her blind date, and an African-American emcee who rides a borrowed bike acr