24th(2022)
- Opening Film (1)
- Discovery (12)
- Asian Shorts (20)
- I-Teens (6)
- New Currents (26)
- The Landscape of Here in Now (5)
- Polemics (6)
- Queer Rainbow (7)
- Feminist Collective (9)
- The moments with Yeri HAN (10)
- Remembering Oblivion (4)
- Restored (10)
- Film X Gender (2)
- Barrier Free (1)
- Documentary Ock Rang (2)
- Special Screening (1)
- In Memory of KANG Soo-yeon (1)
Nazarbazi
Maryam TAFAKORY
- Iran, United Kingdom
- 2022
- 20min
- DCP
- color
SYNOPSIS
Nazarbazi (which means "a play of glances") is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
PROGRAM NOTE
Since the 1979 revolution in Iran, women are not allowed to have physical contact with men outside of their families. Nazarbazi is an excerpt from an existing Iranian film that indirectly describes contact and presents it through a poem. Scenes with eye movements and scenes that seem to touch each other with objects in-between reveal desire more effectively than scenes of direct contact. Sometimes more can be said silently than aloud. [LEE Hayun, ma-te-ri-al]
Director
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Maryam TAFAKORYMaryam TAFAKORY
Born in Iran, Tafakory is an artist filmmaker whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA Doc Fortnight, IFF Rotterdam, Edinburgh IFF, Melbourne IFF, Pergamon Museum, M HKA, and Anthology Film Archives, among others. She has received several awards, including the Ammodo Tiger Short at the 51st IFF Rotterdam and the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Credit
- ProducerMaryam TAKAKORY, Film and Video Umbrella
- Screenwriter Maryam TAKAKORY
- Editor Maryam TAKAKORY
- Sound Maryam TAKAKORY