Vessel x Cinema Politica – 01 April – Razeh-del راز دل

Featuring

Razeh-del

Maryam Tafakory · 2024 · 28m

In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.

Admission

By donation (suggested: $5-$10)

About the Film

In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.

The dense layerings of inky newsprint and appropriated footage in Maryam Tafakory’s Razeh-del retell the history of Zan, Iran’s first women’s newspaper, whose brief run in the late 1990s inspires two schoolgirls to propose a film of their own. Amid intensely saturated fields of amethyst, crimson, and amber, images of women emerge and dissolve, smothered in inscriptions quoting angry responses from male readers and words of support from women who dream of an impossible cinema.

Limited to 50 spaces so get your ticket now.

Donations encouraged by those who can to enable this free event to continue!

Times:

Doors open 7 pm

Movie will start at 7.15pm

Talk and conversation afterwards ~ approximately 7.45pm

Opportunity to watch movie again after conversation 8.30pm.

Vessel is incredible thankful to our event sponsors; Otherside Brewing Company and Lightning Minds.

And proud to present Bendigo Community Bank – Fremantle, our new Supporting Partner of the Vessel Contemporary Cinema Politica Series’