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Poem and Stone
She'r va sang

Director(s): Maryam TafakoryIR, UK11 min.2015
71%(9 ratings)
Categoriesexperimental
LanguagesEnglish, Arabic (orig.)
SubtitlesEnglish, slovak
Black and white / colourcolor

Exploring the intangibility of how one experiences and records the present through bodily sensations, referencing Marcel Proust’s notion of ‘involuntary memory’. The residual, the soil and stains aren’t a mere reconstruction of the past, but an attempt to return to ritualise fragments of the absent. The desire to remember embeds the past involuntarily within the present. An assemblage of performance, documentary and poetry, concentrating on notions of belonging, absence and the impossibility of return.

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Projection of Poem and Stone at IFF ART FILM 2016
International Competition of Shorts
Film block: Competition of Shorts III
Film was already screened
Film block: Competition of Shorts III
Film was already screened
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