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. FILMS FROM CONTEMPORARY IRAN 6 ? 7 NOVEMBER Screening of Iranian films 6 ? 7 November at Soria Moria Cinema Presentation of the magazine Pages 7 November at Torpedo Bokhandel The screenings in Soria Moria (Torshov) follow the exhibition project ?Sunset Cinema_edition 2? which was realized in Display gallery in Prague, May 2006. The two Iranian artists living in the Netherlands, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, created a framework and a stage for the screening of several films, out of which three are going to be screened within this program. Films from Contemporary Iran, is an initiative from Display (www.display.cz) in Prague and Pages in Rotterdam (www.pagesmagazine,net), organized in Oslo by UKS, Soria Moria, and Torpedo Bokhandel. The project is supported by OCA- Office for Contemporary Art, Norway. (PROGRAM PRAGUE: Kino Svetozor 2-4 November) PROGRAM DETAILS OSLO: Tuesday 6 November Time: 18:45 - 20:45 at Soria Moria Introduction by Director Alireza Rasoulinezhad Exteriors Director: Alireza Rasoulinezhad Iran, 2004 83 minutes, video Exteriors is a film in three parts about a discouraged intellectual uncle who disappears from Tehran to lead a different life elsewhere. He leaves his apartment to his nephew and niece. The two discover some notes on various social and cultural topics and an unfinished film by their uncle. Inspired by their uncle?s ideas and the film footage, they decide to make a film together. The involvement of the two in pursuing the film becomes a pretext for the director of this trilogy to address contemporary social and cultural issues of Iran. Wednesday 7 November Time: 17.00 at Torpedo Bokhandel (Hausmannsgate 42, Oslo) Short presentation by Babak Afrassiabi of the magazine Pages Pages is a bilingual, Farsi and English, magazine with the aim to function as a platform for exchange, dialogs and projects, a place for collaboration between artists and writers from Iran and elsewhere. The magazine?s interest lies in the socio-political flows within spaces of urban and everyday life. Time: 18:45 - 20:45 at Soria Moria, Introduction by Director Bahman Kiarostami Pilgrimage Director: Bahman Kiarostami Iran, 2004 52 minutes, video Shot in and around a small prosecutor?s office on the Iran-Iraq border, this documentary is about illegal pilgrims who are persistent in crossing the Iran?s border with Iraq for the holly city of Karbala. Being deprived of this pilgrimage for years during and after the Iran-Iraq war, now with the fall of Saddam many attempt to travel with forged documents or risk their lives while being smuggled across the harsh border. ?Criminal pilgrims or pilgrim criminals? this is the dilemma the film is uncovering. Shabih Khani (Re-enactment) Director: Bahman Kiarostami Iran, 2006 52 minutes, Video Shabih-Khani is a documentary about men who, in the yearly held religious ceremony called the Ashura, re-enact the scenes of the battle Karbala (that took place in 680 ac in the desert of Karbala in current Iraq, commemorating the death of Imam Hossein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammad, and his entire family). Shabih (likeness) is a term which refers to an actor who plays the role of the holy companions of Imam Hossein or his enemies. The title Shabih-Khani underlines the separation between the actors and the roles they play. As the men are asked to play their roles in front of the camera, they inevitably indulge in a double re-enactment of their roles, causing moments of confusion, bordering on farce or slapstick. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta) _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann