Is the human only a sum of their parts? Are there quantifiable certainties which conclude a life at the end? What does a memory weigh? Three works take stock: 8mm home movies populate the narrative of a life in numbers, photographs of river courses with meticulous notes are the seed for an approach to the grandfather, an iPhone archive is plundered and condenses a collective period of life in quick, concise sequences. All three movies make use of different artistic strategies to create visual resonance rooms to reflect insights, obsessions, uncertainties, social relations, patriarchal structures, public spaces, borders. A different life is possible. (Jessica Manstetten)
Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel “Autoportrait'” by Édouard Levé, “Subtotals” is a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you anything for free. It is an essay wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, about an impossible attempt at accounting for one’s life’s products. Have you kept an account of your gray hair? Of the number of houses you have owned or rented? Of the number of kisses you have exchanged? Of the number of times you’ve flown in your dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers.… >>>
- Director: Mohammadreza Farzad
Among the belongings of the protagonist’s late grandfather are some floppy disks and a camera. The camera is a Sony Digital Mavica, released in 2002, and its pictures are saved onto floppy disks. These contain pictures of nearby rivers that the grandfather took. The protagonist decides to follow the courses of those rivers.… >>>
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