Tehran-gele

Projecting the past of a Middle Eastern country onto a Western present, Tehran-geles is an imaginary vision of Tehran set against the urban landscape of Los Angeles. Through an aerial journey, we discover an architectural transposition of the two cities. As the avenues of Los Angeles are flown over, the personal testimonies of migrants evoke the collective memory of the Iranian capital before and after the revolution. In the city center, buildings are saturated with Tehran’s neon signs, generating the utopian vision of a city that has never existed.