Shorts

Chooka

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko
Iran, Kanada 2018
21 min
V'18

This cryptic work is less a documentary than a poetic evocation of mysterious, overlapping traces of the past. It begins from archival footage of Canadian workers establishing a paper factory in pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran; they fled in ’79. In a nearby home, during the factory’s construction, a family hosted the filmmaker Bahram Beyzai as he made THE STRANGER AND THE FOG (1974); post-revolution, he shot BASHU, THE LITTLE STRANGER (1986) there. So many memories and ghosts cross paths between these sites today; the village’s inhabitants peer at photographs and tell their tales, while images from Beyzai’s fictions evoke loss of identity. (Adrian Martin)

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  • Parastoo Anoushahpour
  • Faraz Anoushahpour
  • Ryan Ferko
  • Parastoo Anoushahpour
  • Faraz Anoushahpour
  • Ryan Ferko
  • Parastoo Anoushahpour
  • Faraz Anoushahpour
  • Ryan Ferko
  • Parastoo Anoushahpour
  • Faraz Anoushahpour
  • Ryan Ferko
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Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko

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