For the Sake of Calmness
How does one visualise an amorphous idea, one that has become abstract to the point of obscurity? Landscape, real and imagined, provides the backdrop for a visual narrative, while sound, intertwined with a self-narrated monologue, adds a third dimension to this specific portrayal. Newsha Tavakolian is detached from the real world and yet achingly affected by it. An experimental take on a reality intensified by the emotional flare of PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome).
Also in this combined programme
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Manifesto
As an art school is subsumed by a culture of surveillance and administration, small gestures of resistance liberate the creative soul. -
Flowers blooming in our throats
Everyday occupations, hands that dig in the earth, that cut, touch, squeeze. The sound of domestic spaces and their silence. -
Maat
A razor-sharp, playful impression of contemporary life, filled with personal stories and with activism dripping from its pores.
Interview
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Film details
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
