Maryam Tafakory Trailers
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Maryam TAFAKORY (1987, Iran) is an artist filmmaker whose textual and filmic collages interweave poetry, documentary, archival, and found material. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at MoMA Doc Fortnight; IFF Rotterdam; True/False; Pergamon Museum; M HKA; and Anthology Film Archives amongst others. She has received several awards including the Ammodo Tiger Short at 51st IFFR, Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Experimental Short Film at 70th Melbourne International Film Festival, the Jury Prize at Documenta Madrid, and the Best Short Film at Festival de Cine Lima Independiente. She was awarded the Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence (NY) in 2019, and she received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022.
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10 July 2025
Daria has written her first manuscript about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ [blue].
26 January 2018
Making a stage from two public spaces in Iran which women are prohibited from entering, Maryam Tafakory’s depiction of men and women coming of age draws parallels while commenting on this separation of the genders.
01 January 2015
A film skirting the edge of performance, documentary, and poetry, explores the question of human memory through the combination of a variety of abstract and symbolic motifs.
04 February 2022
Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
01 October 2021
Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
03 October 2023
Cuts together images from 32 films, spanning three decades, in order to dissect the binary of chaste/unchaste women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
01 January 2015
text becomes the body for a hand.
11 April 2025
Synopsis for an impossible film. In 1998, two high school girls sent a letter to the first-ever women’s newspaper in Iran.
29 November 2022
A film collage comprised of fragments of post-revolution Iranian cinema accompanied by a live poetry reading by Maryam Tafakory.
01 January 2014
Inner monologues are interwoven with embodied forms of language to create a split-screen, fictional scenario incorporating choreography, daily obligations and part-presences.
24 May 2023
Two women lie in bed together. One tells the other the colorful memory of a date with a man in Tehran.
07 August 2018
Neatly chalked extracts and spoken fragments of Forugh Farrokhzad's radical poem Sin directly contradict the unembellished recordings of clerics instructing women to suppress their sexual predilections.
