nocturne #2
Director Pieter Geenen
Countries Belgium
Duration 12 min
Synopsis
The Tehran streets registered with a mobile phone during the Arab Spring of 2011, at nighttime, the most quiet moment of day. The over-mediatised images being part of our collective memory are disposed from their sensational content, their manipulative representation and their historical referent. What is left is a backdrop, an absurd and imminent anti-image shifting between the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War demonstrations, the repression after the 2009 elections and the revolutions in the Arab World in 2011.
The Tehran streets registered with a mobile phone during the Arab Spring of 2011, at nighttime, the most quiet moment of day. The over-mediatised images being part of our collective memory are disposed from their sensational content, their manipulative representation and their historical referent. What is left is a backdrop, an absurd and imminent anti-image shifting between the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War demonstrations, the repression after the 2009 elections and the revolutions in the Arab World in 2011.