Short Film Program I
DETOUR TO TEHRAN
A film program curated by Amirali Ghasemi | Parking Video Library
in cooperation with hinterland galerie
A film program curated by Amirali Ghasemi | Parking Video Library
in cooperation with hinterland galerie
- Fleur Cinema | Jale Nesari | 2018 |
- Tehran Metastasis | Siavash Naghshbandi | 2016
- The Plasco Building | Bahar Samadi | 2017 | silent
- Workers Say Goodbye to the Sun | Arash Fesharaki | 2013
- String | Ehsan Barati | 2018
- Some ways to reach revolution | Setareh Jabbari | 2009
- Room No. 28, The Floor to The Roof | Ehsan Behmanesh | 2007
- Tehran Zoo | Arash Khakpour, Arash Radkia | 2009
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Fleur Cinema | Jale Nesari | 2018 |
Before the 1979 revolution, the highest grossing Iranian movies were those featuring the female dancers and singers and their love affairs. The production of such movies was banned in the post-revolution era and most of the actors and actresses of these films were left out of the film industry. The Fleur Cinema is an old movie theater in the southern part of Tehran which was notorious due to the screening of these movies. After the revolution, The Fleur Cinema became weaker and weaker and closed forever in 1985.
| Tehran Metastasis | Siavash Naghshbandi | 2016
The population of the city of Tehran has been steadily growing over the last few decades and is now around 13 million.
| Bahar Samadi | The Plasco Building | 2017 | 03’00’’ | silent
The Plasco Building in Tehran engulfed by fire, collapsed on 19 January 2017. The 17-story tower built in early 1960, was an iconic presence on the Tehran skyline. The image used in this video is photographed from a position in which the building is not clearly visible.
| Arash Fesharaki | Workers Say Goodbye to the Sun | 2’59” | 2013
It’s 5 pm on an autumn day. Workers are destroying a building and the building breaks down in front of the setting sun. The day ends.
| String | Ehsan Barati | 2018
This film has been made by the connection of certain pieces, detached from the context of daily life. An effort to make a kind of a narration which avoids storytelling. A narration that takes place mostly in public places and due to this common familiarity, it loses its certainty and alienation. The Places and happenings which are routine and part of the collective memory, being defamiliarized by the means of media.
A linear space like a string which is similar to life itself that is current and is unique and unrepeatable in a certain location and time.
Some ways to reach revolution | Setareh Jabbari | 2009
| Ehsan Behmanesh | Room No. 28, The Floor to The Roof | 13’33” | 2007
The room number 28, is a time-space, so its floor to the roof - expect its physical space - contains a 28 years span in which the video work passes through.
| Tehran Zoo | Arash Khakpour, Arash Radkia | 2009
Tehran Zoo is an experimental documentary by Iranian filmmakers Arash Khakpour and Arash Radkia. The film portrays the wildlife zoo in Tehran, Iran.
Before the 1979 revolution, the highest grossing Iranian movies were those featuring the female dancers and singers and their love affairs. The production of such movies was banned in the post-revolution era and most of the actors and actresses of these films were left out of the film industry. The Fleur Cinema is an old movie theater in the southern part of Tehran which was notorious due to the screening of these movies. After the revolution, The Fleur Cinema became weaker and weaker and closed forever in 1985.
| Tehran Metastasis | Siavash Naghshbandi | 2016
The population of the city of Tehran has been steadily growing over the last few decades and is now around 13 million.
| Bahar Samadi | The Plasco Building | 2017 | 03’00’’ | silent
The Plasco Building in Tehran engulfed by fire, collapsed on 19 January 2017. The 17-story tower built in early 1960, was an iconic presence on the Tehran skyline. The image used in this video is photographed from a position in which the building is not clearly visible.
| Arash Fesharaki | Workers Say Goodbye to the Sun | 2’59” | 2013
It’s 5 pm on an autumn day. Workers are destroying a building and the building breaks down in front of the setting sun. The day ends.
| String | Ehsan Barati | 2018
This film has been made by the connection of certain pieces, detached from the context of daily life. An effort to make a kind of a narration which avoids storytelling. A narration that takes place mostly in public places and due to this common familiarity, it loses its certainty and alienation. The Places and happenings which are routine and part of the collective memory, being defamiliarized by the means of media.
A linear space like a string which is similar to life itself that is current and is unique and unrepeatable in a certain location and time.
Some ways to reach revolution | Setareh Jabbari | 2009
| Ehsan Behmanesh | Room No. 28, The Floor to The Roof | 13’33” | 2007
The room number 28, is a time-space, so its floor to the roof - expect its physical space - contains a 28 years span in which the video work passes through.
| Tehran Zoo | Arash Khakpour, Arash Radkia | 2009
Tehran Zoo is an experimental documentary by Iranian filmmakers Arash Khakpour and Arash Radkia. The film portrays the wildlife zoo in Tehran, Iran.
