Conquest of Paradise
Fath-e Behesht
A single-channel video split into two frames about the American dream. One frame shows a wooden board with a basketball net, with white and red lines in the background. The other is a low-angle shot of a building and a white sky, in which blue and white balls fall like shooting stars. The two frames portray an illusion of how the ball scores a goal and the dream of going to heaven comes true.
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Irreversible Beauty
The artist Malekian makes sculptures and video art. In Irreversible Beauty she records her latest experimental performance.
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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.
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The Harmonica
Amirou wants to play another little boy’s mouth organ. A metaphor for colonialism in developing countries, based on found footage.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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Acrophobia 0.1.
Fragments of a fading memory are combined into a new experience. A work about time and memory.
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Perpendicular to the Path
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 simpli
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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.
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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
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Red Thing
A giant red thing invades the city and desperately tries anything it can to get people’s attention.
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Immersed
Performed by Varesh Darvish and composed and edited by M.R. Heydary, Immersed is the result of a collaboration between this artist couple.
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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 s
Film details
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 3"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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