28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Poem and stone
director: Maryam Tafakory
original title: She'r va Sang
country: Iran, United Kingdom
year: 2015
running time: 10 min.
synopsis
A film skirting the edge of performance, documentary, and poetry, explores the question of human memory through the combination of a variety of abstract and symbolic motifs. It refers to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and the principles of “involuntary memory” based on the unconscious storing of memories connected with concrete emotions.DETAIL:
“I sit here, yearning for the smell of wet soil and gasoline, my fingers stained with the absent. I unself here. Distance and nearness are attributes of bodies. The journey of the soul involves not time and place.”
biography
Maryam Tafakory (1987) is an Iranian artist and director living in London. In her projects, she explores allegorical forms of visual storytelling and inner monologues, and constantly mixes documentary elements with installation. In her work, existential reflections blend into themes of poetry, politics, and religion. Her other films include the short film I Was Five When I Became a Woman (2014) about female circumcision.more about film
| director: | Maryam Tafakory |
| producer: | Maryam Tafakory |
| photography: | Maryam Tafakory |
