TUESDAY, JULY 5 – 7:30 PM with Maryam Tafakory in person for Q+A
(This event is $10.)
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Spectacle is thrilled to host filmmaker, archivist and multidisciplinary artist Maryam Tafakory for a very special one-night engagement that combines film/video with performance and dialogue.
IRANI BAG
(کیف ایرانی)
2021. 8 mins.
Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, IRANI BAG is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
NAZARBAZI
(نظربازی)
2022. 20 mins.
NAZARBAZI (“the play of glances”) is a film about love and desire in post-revolution Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
I HAVE SINNED A RAPTUROUS SIN
(گنه کردم)
2019. 10 mins.
What cures women of sexual promiscuity?
ABSENT WOUND
(زخم)
2018. 10 mins.
The rituals of warrior training are seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl. Whilst seemingly in separate worlds, the film draws parallels and connections between these relative situations, in the process drawing documentary and fictional threads together to reveal a shared sense of coming to terms with corporeality, its rituals, and tribulations.
MARYAM TAFAKORY is an artist filmmaker whose textual and filmic collages interweave poetry, documentary, archival, and found material. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at MoMA Doc Fortnight; IFF Rotterdam; EIFF Edinburgh; MIFF Melbourne; True/False; Pergamon Museum; M HKA; and Anthology Film Archives amongst others. She has received several awards including the Ammodo Tiger Short at 51st IFFR, Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Jury Prize at Documenta Madrid, and the Best Short Film at Festival de Cine Lima Independiente. She was awarded theFlaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence (NY) in 2019, and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022.