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SNW_DSRT

A short video-poem that revisits the mythic desert of Counter-Strike’s de_dust2 through the lens of Iranian gamenet nostalgia. Blending game imagery and essayistic narration, SNW_DSRT treats memory as a looping system error, where death becomes respawn, history replays, and the desert itself begins to dream. As the piece moves from LAN culture to contemporary war as interface, it imagines an impossible glitch: snow falling on the desert, a brief interruption in the circuitry of return.

  • Parham Ghalamdar
    Director
  • Parham Ghalamdar
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 26, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Language:
    Bengali
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • “ARCADE” group show curated by @covenldn, at HYPHA HQ
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 19, 2026
Director Biography - Parham Ghalamdar

Parham Ghalamdar is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working across film, writing, and AI-mediated image practices. His work explores how memory, myth, and machine vision shape perception and history. He is a scholarship recipient at The New Centre for Research and Practice and an APP Creative Commissions Programme artist at Leeds Arts University.

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Director Statement

SNW_DSRT is a short video-poem about Iranian gamenet nostalgia and the desert of Counter-Strike’s de_dust2 as a memory machine. I use game imagery and essayistic narration to treat nostalgia as a system error, where time loops, death becomes respawn, and the “real” is rewritten by repetition. The title image, snow in the desert, is a glitch that briefly interrupts the circuit of return.