From a distant time.

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From a distant time. ()

Directed by Mahshid Afzali, Javad Ebrahiminejad

Documentary · 10m

In the summer of 1900, the first film camera was purchased by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar for Iran, and immediately the first Iranian moving images were captured by this camera. These images, in an obsessive manner, have embodied the mesmerized gaze of people. In the span of 79 years since the purchase of this camera, Iran has undergone two revolutions and two coups, and throughout all these moments, the camera has been present as the recorder of people's mesmerized gazes. These mesmerized gazes are in a way as if they are the ones looking at us, not the other way around. It seems like these gazes are trying to convey something, but what? No one knows. Now, we gaze at those who have gazed at us from a distant time.

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Crew

Director
Mahshid Afzali, Javad Ebrahiminejad
Writer
Javad Ebrahiminejad

Details

Runtime
10m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Production
4th projects