Sara Rajaei
Sara RAJAEI (1976, Iran) is an Iranian/Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Tehran and the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in the Hague, where she specialised in 3D art. After graduation in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space. She mainly works with short films and video installations. Her works have been shown at various festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including De Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. In 2009, she was awarded the Prix de Rome.
Filmography
(selection, all short) untitled (01-cliche series) (2000, series), untitled (02-cliche series) (2001, series), veronica & chantur (03-cliche series) (2001, series), lida (04-cliche series) (2002, series), do not avoid me (05-cliche series) (2002, series), three meters (06-cliche series) (2003, series), untitled (for marvin) (2002), a day of amnesia (2004), while on my way (2004), the savior (2005), charismatic fates & vanishing dates (2006), since we’ve moved here (2007), shahrzad (2009), forever for a while (2009), a leap year that started on a Friday (2010), objects of purely sentimental value (2010), 1978 the 231st day (2012), the picture must begin as a poem (2013), there was the dream and there was a memory connected with it (2015), in the gaze of panoptes (2016), a composition in blue, red & other colours (2017), yet another leap year (2022)
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Sara Rajaei op IFFR
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1978 the 231st Day
Sara Rajaei | 6' | Netherlands | World premiere
What happened in one movie theater on the 231st day of the year 1978…. -
Forever for a While
Sara Rajaei | 8' | Netherlands | None
A young woman enters the living room, a little later looks in the mirror as an old woman and sits down in the chair as… -
A Composition in Blue, Red & Other Colours
Sara Rajaei | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere
In a film that slowly reveals itself, a protagonist is in search of a voice for memories of a hostile world that hitherto could not…