Irreversible Beauty

Also in this combined programme

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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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!

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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  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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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  Acrophobia 0.1.

  Fragments of a fading memory are combined into a new experience. A work about time and memory.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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  Red Thing

  A giant red thing invades the city and desperately tries anything it can to get people’s attention.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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.

  • Signals: Inside Iran
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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

  • Signals: Inside Iran