Absent wound

Running time: 10’

The rituals of Persian warrior training seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood. (The film is shot and performed by a female in two locations in Iran where women's presence is prohibited: House of strength and a public men's bath.)

Authors:

  • Maryam Tafakory

    Maryam Tafakory (b. Shiraz, Iran) is an artist-filmmaker living and working in London. Her work draws on the notion of ‘personal as political’ in a fractured narrative that involves a subtle negotiation between factual and fiction, exploring allegorical forms of visual narrative, using abstracted, symbolic and textual motifs and their on-screen representation. Part performance, her work draws on womanhood and rites of passage, interweaving poetry, (self)-censorship and religion, combining a formal minimalist syntax and figurative mode of representation. Her work has screened and exhibited internationally including, Rotterdam IFFR, Edinburgh EIFF, Zurich Film Festival​, Melbourne MIFF, Hamburg IKFF, ICA London, BFI London, LSFF London, Ji.hlava IDFF, Barbican Centre London, Bloomberg New Contemporaries​, New York UnionDocs, and BBC Three.

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