IFFR 2017

Ayamus

Loosely translated Azadaar means they who lament. This two-part video installation by Ayamus depicts a group of men pounding their bare backs or chests in a trance. The sensuous images are purposely unspectacular to provide a more nuanced insight than the ideological, polarising media discourse allows.<em></em>

Perspectives

Parallax Views

Azadaar

Meiro Koizumi 

Asking passers-by on the streets of Japan “What happened in and around Japan between 1900 and 1945?”, artist Meiro Koizumi unveils Japan’s struggle to come to terms with its own recent past through the responses he gathers. Abject close-ups of mouths fill the screen in this powerful installation.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Parallax Views

In 'Parallax Views'

Azadaar

Oral History