Faraz Anoushahpour Trailers
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Faraz Anoushahpour (Iran/Canada) is an artist, filmmaker, and programmer originally from Tehran and currently based in Toronto. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Architectural Association (London, UK), and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from OCAD University (Toronto). He was Programmer at Images Festival (2014-2017), and participant in the Belligerent Eyes residency at the Prada Foundation (Venice, Italy), among others. Since 2013 he has been working in collaboration with Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. Foregrounding the idea of place as a central focus, their work seeks to both decode their surroundings and trouble the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery. Their recent work has shown at Punto de Vista Film Festival, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Art (Spain), Sharjah Film Platform, Viennale, NYFF, TIFF, IFF Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Experimenta (Bangalore), and Media City Film Festival (2015-2018).
Most Popular Faraz Anoushahpour Trailers
Total trailers found: 11
20 September 2024
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out.
23 January 2018
In 1973, the Shah of Iran commissioned the construction of a paper factory in the lush northern province of Gilan.
13 November 2018
In winter of 1986 our mother writes in her diary: “To scratch the surface of a subject does not penetrate deep into the subject”.
10 September 2017
The chasm between languages is explored through a photograph of a volcanic stone slice in Taiwan. As technology attempts to foster translation and understanding, it also produces new meanings.
20 January 2024
Lovers’ Wind, takes its starting point from the helicopter crash at Karaj Dam near Tehran that killed French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1970, during the production of Le Vent des Amoureux (Bād-e Sabā, 1978), a state-funded documentary about Iran.
17 February 2022
A young Slovakian immigrant opens a uranium mine near Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, and later builds a massive replica of the modest church from his childhood village.
04 December 2018
In an age of collective anxiety around issues of safety – be it global, national, or personal –we are interested in the ways in which different practices of resilience change environments, create subjects, unlink temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity.
30 June 2022
The Time that Separates Us circles an ancient salt-rock formation overlooking the Dead Sea, near Ghor Al-Safi, Jordan.
13 September 2015
A faltering narrator attempts to recount a family holiday as memory — sparked by a found postcard, a family photo album, and footage from two distinct locations and spatio-temporalities (Toronto and Berlin) — summons forth a barrage of flickering images, creating psychic hiccups and firecrackers of recall.
24 October 2024
Le vent des amoureux was completed by Lamorisse’s wife and son, and officially released eight years after the filmmaker’s death.
01 June 2018
beach is a recreation of a live performance originally presented at Mercer Union in Toronto in June 2018.
