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Razeh-del
by Maryam Tafakory
Iran, UK, Italy, 2024, 27′
Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
SCREENPLAY, EDITING: Maryam Tafakory
SOUND DESIGN: Stefan Smith, Maryam Tafakory
SOUND MIX: Stefan Smith
IMAGE CREDITS: courtesy of the artist, Lo schermo dell’arte, and Seven Gravity Collection
SOUND DESIGN: Stefan Smith, Maryam Tafakory
SOUND MIX: Stefan Smith
IMAGE CREDITS: courtesy of the artist, Lo schermo dell’arte, and Seven Gravity Collection
PRODUCER: Leonardo Bigazzi
ov: Farsi; st: English, Italian
ov: Farsi; st: English, Italian
Amid dense layers of ink-filled newspaper and images from film archives, Razeh-del (Secret of the Heart) tells the story of Zan (Woman), the first Iranian women’s magazine. Published for a brief period during the 1990s under the regime, the magazine inspires two young high school girls to write a script for an impossible film: the story of an illicit love between two women who decide to set fire to the Ministry of Culture. Through intensely saturated hues of amethyst, crimson, and amber, and whispered, fragmented, and suspended sounds accompanying the archival footage, the film reflects on the presence of women in Iranian cinema and, more broadly, in Iranian society.
Maryam Tafakory (Iran, 1987) works with film and performance. Her solo screenings and exhibitions include: MoMA, New York; BOZAR, Brussels; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Academy Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; e-flux, New York; and LUX London, among others. Selected group events include: Tate Modern, London; Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes; New York Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Villa Medici, Rome; HKW Berlin, Berlin; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and Anthology Film Archives, New York. She was awarded Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival; the Tiger Short Award at the 51st Rotterdam IFF; and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival. She is a nominee for the Film London Jarman Award 2024
Selected Filmography
2023 Mast-del 2022 Nazarbazi 2018 Irani bag; 2018 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin 2017 Absent Wound 2015 Poem and Stone; Fragments of a Letter to a Child Unborn
2023 Mast-del 2022 Nazarbazi 2018 Irani bag; 2018 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin 2017 Absent Wound 2015 Poem and Stone; Fragments of a Letter to a Child Unborn