نظربازی
Nazarbazi
[19' | 2022]
Winner of Ammodo Tiger Short Award at 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR
Jury report at IFFR:
“An exceptionally skillful film, through the way it translates rigorous research into a convincing dramaturgical experience. The filmmaker managed to capture an argument into a piece of poetry – a seamless collage crafted with directorial intelligence and a seemingly effortless fluidity in both text and image. A film that seductively interrogates responses to censorship and suppression.”
Screenings:
True/False Film Festival
30th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
70th MIFF, Melbourne
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Costa Rica International Film Festival, San José
Frames of Representation, ICA London
Nazarbazi [the 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.
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The film focuses primarily on images of women whose bodies have been erased and victimised in post-revolution cinema, and alludes to discreet forms of communication that operate within, yet also circumnavigate the censors. It attempts to touch the spaces we cannot touch; inner feelings/sensations – but also untouchability beyond physical contact: unspoken prohibitions/regulators that may only unveil as embodied experiences. The film uses poetry and silence as the only language/s with which we can attempt to touch these spaces of socio-political ambiguities.
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Reviews
by Namrata Joshi
by Ben Nicholson
by Flavia Dima
by Elhum Shakerifar
words sketched onto the night’s taut skin
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Mentions
by Catherine Grant
by Ariel Avissar
by Leo Goldsmith
by Ben Nicholson
by Flavia Dima
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
by Namrata Joshi
By Daniel Montesinos
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