NAZARBAZI + THE MYRIAD OF FACES OF THE FUTURE CHALLENGERS

NAZARBAZI
Director: Maryam Tafakory
Run Time: 19mins
Rating: PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes)
Language: Farsi, English (with English subtitles)

Screening Details: 26 Nov 2022, 1.30pm, FG Kallang Hall 2

Synopsis
In Iran, physical touch between a man and woman is prohibited in films. Nazarbazi (‘the play of glances’) examines the at times playful visual forms and gestures employed in post-revolution Iranian cinema to bypass censors. Weaving together cinematic moments of ‘sin’, Nazarbazi reflects on the film legacy of invisible desires, implied proximities and unspoken glances.
Tafakory inserts metatextual interventions: quotes from writers and philosophers such as Forugh Farrokhzad and Ahmad Shamlou expand the meaning of the images. Subverting the strict and uneven codifications of portrayals of female desire, Nazarbazi makes a convincing argument about the radical relationality of touch—without touching.


THE MYRIAD OF FACES OF THE FUTURE CHALLENGERS
Director: I Gde Suardiatmika, Yuki Aditya
Cast: Christine Hakim, Roy Sahetaphy, Roy Marten, Sjumandjaja, Slamet Rahardjo Djarot, Deddy Mizwar
Run Time: 92mins
Rating: PG13 (Some Violence)
Language: Bahasa Indonesia (with English subtitles)

Screening Details: 26 Nov 2022, 1.30pm, FG Kallang Hall 2

Synopsis
Suharto’s self-proclaimed New Order government (1966–98) was characterised by intense political suppression and censorship. As a result, cinema became a vehicle for state ideologies. This film foregrounds the recurrence of prosaic shots of everyday life and patterns of narration in films of that era to draw new interpretations and meanings, thus providing an alternative reading of the New Order regime.
Splicing together lo-fi film footage culled online, the film recontextualises scenes and overturns the political subtexts of the regime as resistance against authoritarianism. As the filmmakers say, “Interpreting is an act of citizen participation.”

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