Echolocation

The word Echolocation implies reverberance reflection reaction and blindness or in the cinematic sense the lack of visuals Yet there is a lot to see and hear the rain in Oakland the grandmothers home in Baghdad the aunts voices in Whatsapp a little girl learning to count to 10 The story is told through scattered photographs as well as random voice notes The film redefines the notion of home and expands the meaning beyond a physical structure by accessing it through the words that aided by the abstract collages paint an image of a territory that can be dubbed as homeland even after the visual recollection is lost A heartaching testimony on diaspora and homesickness