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Inbetween Images (Phantom Pain II)


(BALi Kinos)

The Unwanted Scar

THE UNWANTED SCAR is a docufiction that explores the relationship between the power to reconstruct reality and the ability to reshape identity. Lu Shan interweaves personal memories into the portrait of a declined amusement park to create a nostalgic image. The use of different cameras and texts deconstructs the hierarchy of the visual elements. The eventual pixelated outcome of zooming into an image becomes a metaphor. “How is zooming into an image less violent than dissecting emotions?”… >>>

  • Duration: 15 Min.
  • Director: Lu Shan

Missed Embrace

There is only one video in existence of the director with her deceased parents, short and full of abrupt cuts, matching her own incomplete memories of the time. The old video tape shows her mother, her father and another man. Who was this man? And why does the video show her to be closer to him than to her own father? The loss of their parents and the past in general – how things used to be – is never spoken of amongst her siblings. Until, after twenty years of silence and repression, the filmmaker attempts to face her past by pursuing unanswered questions and embarks on a journey to her native city, Teheran. The image of a missed embrace becomes the starting point for a courageous exploration into the history of a family and the turbulences caused when private relationships and emotions do not conform with the prevailing norms of society.… >>>

  • Duration: 53 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Faezeh Nikoozad