Taboor

No overwhelming traffic and turmoil, but a futuristic and deserted Tehran – a labyrinth of dark and empty roads, corridors, stairways and tunnels. This is the Lynchian world Vahid Vakilifar takes us to in his experimental science-fiction film Taboor. A lonely man, dressed in an aluminium suit and living in a trailer covered with aluminium, tries to arm himself against the daily rise in temperature. Only in the evening does he go outside to kill cockroaches for his clients.
It’s the future. A future in which people are isolated and lonely, where cockroaches are the only bond with nature and in which light seems to be the only way out.
Vakilifar was previously a guest at IFFR in 2011 with his debut film Gesher. In Taboor, he breaks with the semi-documentary approach of his earlier film but remains faithful to his fascination with alienation from a world created by mankind.

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