Marwa Arsanioss new film examines the structures of selfgovernance and knowledge production fostered by the Kurdish autonomous womens movement She asks what kinds of democracies are enabled without a state and what kind of ecology is produced under the conditions of war A propositional portrait of guerrilla ethics Who is afraid of ideology Part I disassembles the traditional documentary format not only to show the contradictions inherent in such a portrayal but also to doubt the regime of transparency