Memories and lost moments on found photos. Photos that no longer have an owner. The faces of the people portrayed are often difficult to identify, time has left its traces. By combining these found images again, the story emerges about death.
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.
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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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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.
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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
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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