Maryam Tafakory
Maryam TAFAKORY, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Selected screenings of her work include Tate Modern (London), Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Villa Medici (Rome), Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York) and Anthology Film Archives (New York). Solo screenings/exhibitions of her work include MoMA (New York), BOZAR (Brussels), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Academy Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of the Moving Image (New York) and LUX London, among others.
She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival, the Tiger Short Award at the 51st edition of IFFR, the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival. She was the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.
Filmography
(selection) Fragments of a Letter (2014, short), Poem and Stone (2015, short), Absent Wound (2016, short), I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin (2017, short), Irani bag (2018, short), Monographs (2018, segment “Irani Bag”), Nazarbazi (2021, short)
Maryam Tafakory at IFFR
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Poem and Stone
The various colours, smells and flavours of Tehran are almost tangible. Can memories and the desire to be somewhere be captured in images?
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Nazarbazi
Nazarbazi is Farsi for ‘the play of glances’, a game of forbidden touch, played out for the camera through glistening eyes.
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I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin
Fragments of Forough Farrokhzad’s poem Sin are read out, juxtaposed with clergy advising women on how to control their lust in Maryam Tafakor
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Absent Wound
Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in wom