Admission starts at $5
May 17, 2022, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, May 17 at 7pm for an evening of shorts by Maryam Tafakory, featuring Irani Bag (2021, 8 minutes), Nazarbazi (2022, 20 minutes), I Have Sinned A Rapturous Sin (2019, 10 minutes), and Absent Wound (2018, 10 minutes), with a special introduction by the artist via video call.
One of Iran’s leading moving-image artists working today, Tafakory employs allegorical types of visual storytelling that entail a nuanced negotiation between reality and fiction through abstraction, symbolism, and archival compilation.
Tickets are available here.
Films
Irani Bag (2021, 8 minutes)
Collating scenes of mediated intimacy in Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory’s Irani Bag is a quietly moving instruction on “how to touch without touching.”
Nazarbazi (2022, 20 minutes)
Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in post-revolution Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
I Have Sinned A Rapturous Sin (2019, 10 min)
What cures women of sexual promiscuity?
Absent Wound (2018, 10 minutes)
The rituals of warrior training is seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl. Whilst seemingly in separate worlds, the film draws parallels and connections between these relative situations, in the process drawing documentary and fictional threads together to reveal a shared sense of coming to terms with corporeality, its rituals, and tribulations.
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