There is a need for a spot to be occupied, for a moment to be owned, a moment in the scheduled course of the day. The successive manner, the simplified repetitive action, continues to grow, to block the path, to create a path of its own. The public and quite scenic manifestation finally transforms into self-driven therapeutics.
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Irreversible Beauty
The artist Malekian makes sculptures and video art. In Irreversible Beauty she records her latest experimental performance. -
The Memories of Others
A film made up of found photos and slides. In a collage of these images, a new story is created about the inevitable end. -
The Harmonica
Amirou wants to play another little boy’s mouth organ. A metaphor for colonialism in developing countries, based on found footage. -
Make Art, Not War
A cardboard city and a tank that shoots beautiful graffiti on the walls. The title says it all: Make art, not war! -
Damn Garbage
In a residential complex in Tehran, a woman is stuck outside of her house and can’t get in. She seeks a way to enter. -
My Glorious Childhood
Having grown up in Iran, Nafrisi continued her art studies in the Netherlands. Here she literally carried her childhood around through the streets of -
Conquest of Paradise
A split screen that, with the aid of icons such as basketball and red white and blue, illustrates the illusion of the American Dream. -
This Is Not an Ice Cream
As if the alarming images of war don’t touch her or affect her, the girl continues imperturbably eating her ice cream. -
Acrophobia 0.1.
Fragments of a fading memory are combined into a new experience. A work about time and memory. -
Good Childhood Days
Back to the 1980s, when both directors grew up, while we hear a contemporary Iranian rock version of a children’s song from that decade. -
Raining Ashes
A woman in jail dreams of the activist who writes her letters. Or is the imaginary relationship between prisoner and activist really the other way… -
Red Thing
A giant red thing invades the city and desperately tries anything it can to get people’s attention. -
Immersed
Performed by Varesh Darvish and composed and edited by M.R. Heydary, Immersed is the result of a collaboration between this artist couple. -
Worn Out Mirrors
Two parts consisting of the personal works Butterfly and Candle, in which the artist Bastan metaphorically records his mental state in images and soun
Film details
- Productieland
- Iran
- Jaar
- 2011
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2013
- Lengte
- 10'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
