Nazanin Noroozi
, 2023
, 6 min
This Bitter Earth is an experimental stop-motion film centered around found footage and archival images from viral news stories juxtaposed with hand painted Super 8 family movie frames. The film encompasses four main image series reconsidered and revisited in multiple: the 2020 downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by the Iranian government; the devastating…
Maaman Rezaee
, 2015
Minuet for a Disappearance is an experiment to give life to memories of a political prisoner in Iran through drawings on 16mm films and documenting the objects sent to his daughter from the prison.
, 17 min
A Feast in a Mirror explores the enduring sense of otherness experienced by women, both citizens and foreigners, in any country, be it East or West. Years of oppression and the denial of basic rights in Iran evoke rage and shame, yet paradoxically give rise to courage and power. As an Iranian woman, my character embodies…
February 2025
REBEL FLESH Featuring: Rahmaneh Rabani, Yasman Baghban, Nazanin Noroozi, Maaman Rezai, Elahe Esmaeili and Jocelyne SaabCurated by Homa Sarabi Screening Online: February 14 – 23, 2025 RSVP: artearchive.orgAvailable worldwideFREE / $5 suggested donation Screening In-person:Impasse, by Rahmaneh RabaniA Feast in a Mirror, by Yasman BaghbanThis Bitter Earth, by Nazanin Noroozi Followed by a Q&A with Yasman Baghban and Nazanin Noroozi Date: 19…
Eltayeb Mahdi
, 2022
, 85 min
Synopsis In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th 2019, the protestors staged a sit-in in front of the Sudanese army headquarters in Khartoum that was met with excessive force by militarized troops. Days later, on April 11, 2019, al-Bashir…
, 1977
Al Dhareeh (The Tomb), is Eltayeb Mahdi’s graduation project from the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo. It tells the story of an imposter who claims the power to heal people. Based on real events that occurred along the Nile river in Sudan during the 1960s, the film reflects the popularity of religious imposters in…
Ibrahim Shaddad
, 1981
, 14 min
Jamal (A Camel) is a report from the daily life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room – a sesame mill. An account of the resemblances between the camel and the human being, shot at a time when discussing human beings was harder than talking about animals.
, 1964
, 41 min
Ibrahim Shaddad’s graduation film Jagdpartie (Hunting Party), which he shot at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg (now: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), is a treatise on racism. Filmed in a forest in Brandenburg, it takes on a Western point of view to depict a hunt for a Black man.
, 1989
, 16 min
In Al Mahatta (The Station), Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between the capital Khartoum in the center of Sudan and Port Sudan on the Red Sea in the late 1980s. Relying on intersecting scenes of travelers who wait long hours for transportation or who cross the desert on foot alongside…
, 1985
, 32 min
Al Habil (The Rope) is a surrealist film shot with 16mm real that documents two blind men making their way through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, at times it is the two men who direct the donkey, and at others, it is the donkey who leads the men through the…
