EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

INTERNATIONAL SELECTION
EYE CONTACT
HELSINKI – TEHERAN
Azar Saiyar
Zwischen Orten. Zwischen Menschen. Helsinki-Teheran
ist eine filmische Studie über Immigration und Erinnerungen
- über das geteilte verbale und nonverbale
Wissen und emotionale Verstehen, das vertriebene
Menschen von Generation zu Generation begleitet.
Wiederholte Themen in Saiyars Werken sind die Möglichkeiten
bzw. fehlenden Möglichkeiten der Menschen
innerhalb ihrer Gemeinschaft und Identitätsgrenzen
zu agieren, die die Spuren anderer Menschen,
Kulturen und des alltäglichen Lebens in uns widerspiegeln.
Between places. Between people. Helsinki-Tehran is a
cinematic study on immigration and memory - on the
shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional
understanding which travels with displaced people
from one generation to another. Repeated themes in
Saiyar´s art work are people’s means or lack of means
to operate in their communities and borders of identity,
which mirror the traces of other people, cultures
and common routines in us.
Azar Saiyar, * 1979, is daughter of an Iranian father
and a Finnish mother. Visiting Iran only once when she
was one year old, she lived her childhood in Finland and
Sweden. Saiyar graduated from Turku Arts Academy as
a graphic designer in 2004. She has worked with film
since 2002, mostly as an editor. Helsinki-Tehran is her
debut film as a director and her graduation work to the
Visual Culture MA-programme in University of Art and
Design Helsinki.
�FIN 2009, Video, 22:10
�Director, script, editing Azar Saiyar
�Camera Sini Liimatainen, Olli Leppänen,
Joonas Kiviharju, Azar Saiyar
�Animation Joonas Kiviharju
�Music Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Javad Maroufi
�Distribution Azar Saiyar
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INVITATION
Payam Zeinalabedini
›Die Iraker haben keine Gastunterkünfte für die Karawanen
von Menschen aus dem Iran, die nach Karbala
kommen um zu beten und den Iman Hussein zu preisen.
Ein Grund dafür ist die US Army, die ihr Land besetzt.
Aber noch immer überqueren Tausende von Pilgern
zu Fuß die iranisch-irakische Grenze nach Karbala.‹
Payam Zeinalabedini
Die Filmemacherin macht diese Reise selbst zum ersten
Mal zum Andenken an ihre Großmutter. Die Kamera
ist auf dieser Pilgerreise das dritte Auge, was
aufgrund der ungelösten politischen Lage im Irak zu
einigen erheblichen Problemen für die Menschen
führt.
›The Iraqi People have no hospitality-facilities for the
Iranian caravans of people coming to Karbala to pray
and praise the Iman Hussein. One reason is the American
army which occupy their country. But still thousands
of pilgrims cross the Iranian–Iraqi border and to
Karbala by foot.‹ Payam Zeinalabedini
The filmmaker makes this journey herself for the first
time in memory of her grandmother. The camera is the
third eye on this pilgrimage, which creates more than
one serious problem for the people, due to the unresolved
political situation in Iraq.
Payam Zeinalabedini: Directory: 8 short story film, 3
documentary semi-long films. Script-writing: 5 script
writing for cinema and Television. Education: mastering
directory of cinema- Art University, Iran. Tehran
Awards: best of directory and long script-writing for
short films (1999-2009).
�IR 2009, Video, 30:00
�Director, script, camera Payam Zeinalabedini
�Editing Hesam Eslami
�Distribution Payam Zeinalabedini