On July 21, 2026, FemLibrary hosted a screening of Anahid Yahjian’s experimental short film Domestic Demon (2025), followed by a discussion with the author on maternal mental health and the trap of domesticity.
A housebound mother’s hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. Shadow and silhouette capture the surreal ways in which time spent dutifully in the home changes us as we dare to ask, “how can I still be free?” A portrait of matrescence and post-partum depression in the time of pandemic lockdown. Narrated in Western Armenian, the filmmaker’s endangered mother tongue.
About the author
Anahid Yahjian (b. 1989, Bulgaria) is an Armenian American independent writer, director and producer of experimental, documentary and narrative cinema. Her work is driven by questioning and pursuit: of history, of power, of memory, of liminality, of the surreal and the sublime.
Language: Western Armenian
Subtitles: English
Duration: 6 m.