Screenings

‘Qeytarrie Hills’, ‘O Protector of the Gazelles’ and ‘OK Mister’ Screenings at Beirut Art Center

Sunday, Mar 29, 2015
4:00pm -> 6:00pm
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 rediscovery of the field is mainly embodied by Parviz Kimiavi, whose movies combined ethnographic strategies with speculative narrative or «study of dreams».

About Qeytarrie Hills
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 O Protector of the Gazelles
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.

About OK Mister
In a remote village near Persepolis, in the 1970’s, one day surfaces mysteriously William Knox D’Arcy the first British oil exploiter in Iran beginning of the 20th century. To enact his plan for exploiting the wealth and the natural resources of this land, he hires Cinderella who is enlisted to keep the illiterate villagers under her charm and make them follow D’Arcy’s plans. Astonishing satire on the relation to power for the Iranian people, almost prophetizes the Revolution which occurs a few month after.

Cost
7,000 LL

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