28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
A Moon for My Father
director: Mania Akbari, Douglas White
original title: A Moon for My Father
country: United Kingdom, Iran
year: 2019
running time: 73 min.
synopsis
The body as a material sculpting object and abstract unity of functions. The body as a part of early traumas, ideological rejection, political censorship, persistence and ephemerality. The body as a concept of organization of extensive natural communities. The body as an empty shrine for further artistic use. This audiovisual essay in letters by Iranian filmmaker and British sculptor is a dreamful, intimate dialogue, discourse on the country’s fate following the Islamic revolution, on family and a desire to perfect the female body devastated by malignant disease. A film conversation on the artistic reflection of beauty, memory, experience, fulfilment and inception of new life.biography
Mania Akbari (1974) is a world-renowned Iranian artist and filmmaker based in London. Douglas White (1977) is a British sculptor and conceptualist who makes use of found objects and materials.more about film
director: | Mania Akbari, Douglas White |
producer: | Douglas White, Mania Akbari |
photography: | Paria Kamyab, Douglas White, Mania Akbari, Mashad Afshar |
editing: | Babak Salek, Majed Neisi, Ashkan Mehri |
sound: | Pooya Koosha |