About trying to find a perfect balance between past and present. The performance visualises the invisible effects of the past, which we carry into our present and which shape our new relationships with places and people. It includes Nafisi’s body walking in public space with a doll that represents her childhood, and interaction with people who come close or keep a distance.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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. -
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.… -
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
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
