A musical tour for the album “The Curve” by the Iraqi composer Ameen Mokdad, accompanied by Cuatro Pontus Ensemble and the Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet Ensemble, with dances choreographed by the choreographer Elisa Schroth.
The tour began after five years of work and planning, to end with a new beginning and eleven successful concerts in six cities in the US/CT, with an audience exceeded the three thousand . And after four years from the date of recording, three years from the date the release, Ameen Mokdad and Quatro Pontus released the musical album (The Curve Live from Hartford) as one of the achievements of the tour that started in April 2023 and continues until the end of fall and beyond. …
The music in the album was the outcome of Ameen Miqdad’s life in the city of Mosul between 2014 until 2017 when the city was occupied by the Islamic State, and the music in the current album is an extension of the pieces that were recorded during that period in Mosul inside the house of the Ameen’s family as a protest on the injustice and the darkness brought by these extremist groups.
The first part of the tour ended with a big concert at the Garde art center/ New London, with the New London Orchestra and the EEkklesia Contemporary Ballet
And The Curve continues…

A musical tour for the album “The Curve” by the Iraqi composer Ameen Mokdad, accompanied by Cuatro Pontus Ensemble and the Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet Ensemble, with dances choreographed by the choreographer Elisa Schroth.
The tour began after five years of work and planning, to end with a new beginning and eleven successful concerts in six cities in the US/CT, with an audience exceeded the three thousand . And after four years from the date of recording, three years from the date the release, Ameen Mokdad and Quatro Pontus released the musical album (The Curve Live from Hartford) as one of the achievements of the tour that started in April 2023 and continues until the end of fall and beyond. …
The music in the album was the outcome of Ameen Miqdad’s life in the city of Mosul between 2014 until 2017 when the city was occupied by the Islamic State, and the music in the current album is an extension of the pieces that were recorded during that period in Mosul inside the house of the Ameen’s family as a protest on the injustice and the darkness brought by these extremist groups.
The first part of the tour ended with a big concert at the Garde art center/ New London, with the New London Orchestra and the EEkklesia Contemporary Ballet
And The Curve continues…

The events of the movie hover around four complicated and overlapped stories about the October Revolution. It consists of four characters. A TV interview with Faris in the 1948, a young man in his twenties, shares how he met his friend coincidently through the art of beatboxing and then how he became a martyr of the October Revolution. Salam is a composer in his thirties. After he competes his last piece of music, he starts to look for something unknown linked to his music in some way. We meet the mother through the embroidery hook, few colorful threads and unfinished child bonnet as she left to where we do not know Atef, a seventeen years old man manages to return back to life after he immolated himself for the revolution.

A Freedom Story (Polyrhythmic) documentary film
Hello, my name is Ameen Mokdad and my fundraiser for my first long documentary film was filmed during ISIS occupation started in 2016 in the city of Mosul northern Iraq , between Iraq/ Mosul, Baghdad, Erbil, documenting my life as an Iraqi musician and composer try to survive my music then my life when the punishment for doing music was worse than death.