Maryam Tafakory

2024 | Main Prize Winner

Maryam Tafakory’s artist film Nazarbazi [the play of glances] explores love and desire in Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy between women and men are prohibited. Working between cinema and live performance, she uses images, words and feelings to make textual and filmic collages that stitch together poetry, documentary and archival material. Her essayistic work observes the regulatory forces maintaining the cinematic codes in post-revolution Iranian cinema.

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