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Mast-del
by Maryam Tafakory
Iran, 2023, 17’17”
Presented at the 16th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2023
production: Maryam Tafakory
Screenplay, editing: Maryam Tafakory
Sound: Sarah Davachi
Sound: Sarah Davachi
Two women lie together in bed. As the wind blows against the window, one recalls a past date at the cinema. A love song that would have never passed censorship, “Mast-del” speaks of bodies and forbidden desires, both within and outside post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
Maryam Tafakory (Shiraz, Iran) works with film and performance. Solo screenings and exhibitions of her work 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; Cannes’ Directors Fortnight, 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 the 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 was shortlisted for the 2024 Jarman Award.
Selected Filmography
2022 Nazarbazi; 2018 Irani bag; 2018 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin; 2017 Absent Wound; 2015 Poem and Stone; 2015 Fragments of a Letter to a Child Unborn; 2014 I Was Five When I Became a Woman; 2014 Taklif
2022 Nazarbazi; 2018 Irani bag; 2018 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin; 2017 Absent Wound; 2015 Poem and Stone; 2015 Fragments of a Letter to a Child Unborn; 2014 I Was Five When I Became a Woman; 2014 Taklif