‘The Mongols’ Screening at Beirut Art Center

In relation to alternative voices and cinema traditions from the 1970’s up until today and in close collaboration with Tate Modern’s curators Morad Montazami and Andrea Lissoni, the screenings will be dedicate partly to New wave Iranian craft and heritage. The rediscovery of such field, mainly embodied by Parviz Kimiavi, whose movies combined ethnographic strategies with speculative narrative or «study of dreams», sheds new light on other contemporary Iranian and international documentary filmmakers; these ones all extend the sheer recording of truth to much more ambiguous “tales” of the truth.

About the movie
A left field satire on the expanding presence of cinema and television in Iran’s poor villages that reenacts the Mongols 13th century invasion in the 1970’s. The filmmaker, played by Kimiavi himself, struggles with both his own scenario and a looming assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in the remote province of Zahedan.

Cost
7,000 LL

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