In Moon-faced (2021), Morehshin Allahyari reimagines Persian Qajar-era portraiture to restore the non–binary gender representations that were once a hallmark of the visual culture of the country, but were gradually erased through Westernisation, European realist painting, and the advent of photography. In ancient Persian literature, the term 'moon-faced' described beauty in both men and women; today, in Iran, it refers exclusively to women. Working with a multimodal AI model trained on archival Qajar paintings (1786–1925) and prompted with carefully researched keywords, Allahyari generates new genderless portraits that seek to repair this loss. The resulting video portraits reanimate a queer, gender-fluid tradition obscured by history, accompanied by an original score by Mani Nilchiani.