شاهد گنگ درخت سرگردان
Speechless Witness of a Wandering Tree aims to emphasise the phenomenon of deliberate blinding as an act of oppression by rulers throughout history in Iran. Central to the XR installation is a personal audio archive and temporally immersive recreations of the experience of a woman who lost an eye after being struck by police bullets during a demonstration. After much insistence, she managed to recover the metal projectiles that hit her from the hospital.
In symbolic, ritualistic acts, the woman draws her eye on a wall of an underpass, where slogans are repeatedly erased, and in the sand of a desert, where she buries a glass bowl containing the bullets. The boundaries between the audience and the character dissolve in interactive parts, allowing us to flow with her thoughts and vision.
-
Competitions
-
Premiere statusInternational premiere
Film details
-
Artist(s)Aphra Taghizadeh / A Phrasal Image
-
Country(s)Iran, Netherlands
-
Year2024
-
Duration15 mins
-
Producer(s)Mahdieh Farjoo, Aphra Taghizadeh / A Phrasal Image
-
Language(s)English
