‘P like Pelican’ and ‘The Stone Garden’ Screenings 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 dedicated partly to New wave Iranian craft and heritage. The 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.

About P like Pelican
A poetic look at ruins that have been home to an old hermit for 40 years, now fooled by a group of children living nearby. While explaining the alphabet to them, at the letter P he runs up against an unknown white creature.

About The Stone Garden
In The Stone Garden, Kimiavi visits the garden of Darvish Khan Esfandiarpur, a deaf mute whose home became a religious shrine after he began to hang stones from tree branches. In each film, Kimiavi explores the status of community, arguably producing allegories of the nation during a period of tremendous transformation.

Cost
7,000 LL

For more information
01.397.018