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City of Tales
by Arash Nassiri
2017, 21’51’’
Presented at lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2017
Produced by: Jonas Films
Photos: Anne-Line Desrous- seaux
Sponsors: Foundation, Fonds National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, CNAP Image/Mouvement.
Courtesy the artist
Photos: Anne-Line Desrous- seaux
Sponsors: Foundation, Fonds National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, CNAP Image/Mouvement.
Courtesy the artist
At night, the inhabitants of Los Angeles fall prey to memories of Tehran. They no longer speak English but a Persian dialect. Neon lights fill the streets with psychedelic colors. This ephemeral and ever-changing territory was filmed during Persian celebrations in spring.
Arash Nassiri uses places as the frameworks to produce his work in, as in Land Art. These places can be very specific, like a ruined building, or a whole city, as in the video Tehran-geles where Los Angeles is used as the representation of Tehran. The work produces a discussion between two opposite poles: the materiality and the virtuality of the place. «I like to imagine my projects as Embassies. They are representations of speculative spaces, where our ideologies can become visible and malleable». Nassiri is the winner of the Press Award, Les Enfants Terribles, Huy (2014); the Best Experimental Short Film Award, festival Côté-Court Pantin, Paris (2014); and the RMIT University Award for Best Experimental Short Film, Melbourne Int. Film Festival, Australia (2015). His film works have been exhibited at the Triennale of Istanbul (2010), the Venice Architecture Biennial, the Biennale de Lyon as part of the Palais de Tokyo group exhibition Le Parfait Flâneur (2015), Fundacio Sunnol, Barcelona (2016) and the Shanghai Himalaya Museum (2016).