Tehran-gele
by Arash Nassiri, 2014, 18'
COURTESY: the artist    

Schermo dell'Arte - Archivio Film Presented at Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, 2017 
 
Projecting the past of a Middle East country into a Western present, Tehran­geles is a fictional vision of Tehran, set within the urban landscape of Los Angeles. Through an aerial journey, we discover an architectural transposition of the two cities. While flying over the LA boulevards, personal migrant testimonies echo the collective memory of the Iranian capital before and after the Revolution. Downtown, the buildings are saturated with neon signs of Tehran, generating the utopic vision of a city that never existed.
 

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