The lyrical Remembering the Pentagons depicts filmmaker Azadeh Navai’s earliest memories. Places, smells and emotions are unearthed and the overwhelming world of her youth delineated using sensitive 16mm and pinhole footage. Her personal thoughts meet the words of classic Persian poet Hafez.
Also in this combined programme
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An Old Dog’s Diary
An Old Dog’s Diary assembles, in puzzle-piece evocations, a portrait of Indian avant-garde painter Francis Newton Souza, revealing the cultural condit -
Vivir para vivir
The Californian desert, an ECG and sine waves: Live to Live uses bodily processes ranging from heartbeats to orgasms to create structure. -
Half Human, Half Vapor
Outsider artist Vandercar sculpted in his garden. Rumour has it that he was also adept at telepathy. After his death the spirits still seem present. -
Still Light
Homage to New Zealand poet and filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul has the same radical simplicity as her work. Fresh, sweet film poem with a beautiful… -
A Distant Episode
A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes of a film being made on the other-worldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-w
Film details
- Countries of production
- Iran, USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
