Film director Maryam Tafakory

Maryam Tafakory

2021
Maryam Tafakory (b. Shiraz, Iran) is an artist-filmmaker living and working in London. Her work draws on the notion of ‘personal as political’ in a fractured narrative that involves a subtle negotiation between factual and fiction, exploring allegorical forms of visual narrative, using abstracted, symbolic and textual motifs and their on-screen representation. Part performance, her work draws on womanhood and rites of passage, interweaving poetry, (self)-censorship and religion, combining a formal minimalist syntax and figurative mode of representation.
Фильмы

نظربازی

Maryam Tafakory

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.

Nazarbazi

2021 Nazarbazi
Великобритания

Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child

Maryam Tafakory

text becomes the body for a hand.

Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child

2015 Fragments of a Letter to an Unborn Child
Великобритания

Taklif

Maryam Tafakory

Inner monologues are interwoven with embodied forms of language to create a split-screen, fictional scenario incorporating choreography, daily obligations and part-presences.

Taklif

2014 Taklif
Великобритания

I Was Five When I Became a Woman

Maryam Tafakory

A chilling emotional tapestry that invites you to briefly share the life long torment still forced upon many young girls around the world.

I Was Five When I Became a Woman

2013 I Was Five When I Became a Woman
Великобритания

Absent Wound

Maryam Tafakory

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. The authority of tradition is metaphorically undermined by obstructed onscreen text, while a woman’s low hums and whispers remind us of the presence of the body in the enactment of rituals.

Absent Wound

2017 Absent Wound
Иран

Poem and Stone

Maryam Tafakory

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. It refers to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time and the principles of "involuntary memory" based on the unconscious storing of memories connected with concrete emotions.

Poem and Stone

2015 Poem and Stone
Великобритания

I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin

Maryam Tafakory

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. How? By eating lettuce, of course.

I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin

2018 I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin
Великобритания, документальный

Irani Bag

Maryam Tafakory

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.

Irani Bag

2020 Irani Bag
Великобритания, документальный