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NAZARBAZI

Maryam Tafakory
Iran/UK, 2022
19 min

Drawing on hundreds of hours of Iranian films, Nazarbazi is a quest into the terrain of forbidden sentiment, where the only possible protest against the state-imposed censorship of on-screen affection is to silently splice dusty images.

Somewhere along the road from cinema to poetry there is a place where the secret rhythms of the two meet, for a split second. Nazarbazi lies right there, enduring stubbornly in the epicentre of inexpressible emotion. The director treats Iranian cinema like an archive, digging to the root of the images, taking them apart and searching for the tiny sparks of life in the details. There are no boundaries between fiction and documentary, the gesture resists censorship, and the true face of things floats almost imperceptibly not in the shadows on screen, but in the air between them. Among the actors’ figures we discover a single protagonist: the detail. In the women’s eyes we see a single desire: touch. (Andreea Chiper)

Date and Location

28th of September, 21:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Maryam Tafakory

Maryam Tafakory (b. Iran) is an artist filmmaker whose textual and filmic collages interweave poetry, documentary, archival, and found material. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at MoMA Doc Fortnight; IFF Rotterdam; True/False; Pergamon Museum; M HKA; and Anthology Film Archives amongst others. She has received several awards including the Ammodo Tiger Short at 51st IFFR, Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Experimental Short Film at 70th Melbourne International Film Festival, the Jury Prize at Documenta Madrid, and the Best Short Film at Festival de Cine Lima Independiente.

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