LEFT BANK: New Experimental Nonfiction from the Contemporary Iranian Underground

Film Diary NYC and Millennium Film Workshop are proud to present 9 new films from Tehran’s Left Bank Cinema Collective, a self-governed and non-affiliated cinematic entity that seeks to dismantle conventional modes of film production and vertical, hierarchical models of education. Among the core principles of Left Bank are the screening, retrieval, and rediscovery of marginalized and abandoned peaks of non-fiction cinema; a revolt against dominant and stabilized cinematic grammar; the elimination or reduction of delay as a defining condition of cinema; the revival of collective and reactive filmmaking; opposition to cinematic centralism; resistance to the hegemony of narrative cinema; the removal of hierarchies in both education and production; the redefinition of cinematic economics; and the creation of no-budget or low-budget works through lightweight tools and minimal means.

The program features 9 short films from Left Bank artists, and will be followed by a horizontal conversation with the audience led by Hamidreza Nassiri of Radical Film Network, Sage Ó Tuama of Film Diary NYC, and Joe Wakeman of Millennium Film Workshop.

1. INNER BONES – Parsa Ghamarpour (3 Min)

2. An Instruction for Creating Magenta – Pouyesh Younestaba, Delaram Rad (6 Min)

3. Sky Debris – Fatemeh Akbar Mehr (16 Min)

4. listen, do you hear the wind of darkness? – Maryam Mortazavi (7 Min)

5. Epilogue in Prologue – Farbod Shahnazar / Left Bank (14 Min)

6. Hegemony – Mohammad Jandagni / Left Bank (8 Min)

7. The Lady in Red – Maede Mohsenpour (6 Min)

8. Before Seeing – Amin Heyday Fard (3 Min)

9. It was snowing in that burnt room – Fatemeh Akbar Mehr (32 Min)

Total Run Time: 105 Min. All films presented with English subtitles.

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