Mohammad Bayesteh is a filmmaker, visual artist, curator, and PhD candidate at NTNU’s Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. His artistic research explores filmmaking as a living ecosystem of relations rather than a production pipeline and investigates collective narrative making as a method of social transformation. He has made twenty films, including The Forgiveness Trilogy, Blue Is the Sky, The Rabbit, Brandenburg Mary, Hege Meets Diana, and Silver, and has worked as chief editor on over 150 films.