Program
Dec 6th
Venue: kult.kino atelier (Theaterstrasse 7, 4051 Basel)
18:00
Words of Welcome
Screening: Stronger Than A Bullet (Sweden, Qatar, France 2017, OmU, R: Maryam Ebrahimi, 75 min.)
Q&A with Maryam Ebrahimi
Dec 7th
Venue: eikones Forum (Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel)
9:30-10:00
Ute Holl (Basel)
Memory is a Matter of Constant Translation
10:00-11:00
Tara Najd Ahmadi (Rochester/Vienna)
The Aesthetics of »Incomplete«: Kianoush Ayari's »The Newborns« (1979)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30
Negar Mottahedeh (Durham, North Carolina)
Falgoosh: Listening to a Revolution on Cassette Tape
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (eikones Forum)
14:00-15:00
Blake Atwood (Beirut)
Material Matters, or a Short History of Video Cassettes in Iran
15:00-16:00
Golbarg Rekabtalaei (South Orange)
Heteroglossic Memory. Makhmalbaf’s Nasereddin Shah, the Cinema Actor as Counter-History
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Viktor Ullmann (Berlin)
Counter-Memories of the War With a Spiritual Twist: Mohammad Ali Ahangar and His Recent Contributions to the Sinema-ye Defa’-ye Moqaddas
17:30-18:30
Michelle Langford (Sydney)
The Cinematic Ghazal: Counter-Memories of Love in Iranian Cinema
Dec 8th
Venue: kult.kino atelier (Theaterstrasse 7, 4051 Basel)
9:00-10:00
Screening
The Newborns / Taze-nafas-ha (1979, Kianoush Ayari, 45 min.)
10:00-12:30
Screening
Archeology of Silence (Work in Progress by Chowra Makaremi, 107 min.)
Q&A with Chowra Makaremi
Venue: eikones Forum (Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00
Sara Saljoughi (Toronto)
The Cinema is Missing: Revolution and Memory in the Essay-Films of Mohammadreza Farzad
15:00-16:00
Pedram Partovi (Washington DC)
Filmfarsi as Counter-Memory
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Matthias Wittmann (Basel)
Towards an »Impure« Memory. An Archeology of Counter-Memories through Telescoping Lenses
Conclusion