Scaffold

A reflection by a sensitive artist and filmmaker on her experiences of a city (Tehran) permanently subject to construction and reconstruction. Strangely enough, she also sees this process at the huge cemetery in Tehran, where there is constant renewal and digging for the never-ending stream of dead.
It also pays homage to all migrant workers, above all from Afghanistan and Kurdistan, who do all the heavy manual labour. Working by the roadside in the city and digging graves in the cemetery are presented side-by-side, as a result of which the various images fraternise to form one continuous process. It’s a dichotomy in the form of an installation for which this medium is intended: image and time blend. This blending is amplified by a mysterious soundtrack.
Bani Khoshnoudi works successfully in two different media; she is a productive video artist, but also a talented filmmaker, as her film Ziba (see Bright Future) reveals.