Singapore, United Kingdom · 2021
8m
Director Maryam Tafakory
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Irani Bag is a split-screen video which examines the apparently innocent deployment of the humble handbag in Iranian cinema. Using excerpts from 24 films made between 1990 and 2018, director Maryam Tafakory elucidates a codified vocabulary in which objects are used as surrogates to “mention the unmentionable” and “touch the untouchable”—in what she terms post-revolutionary Iranian film’s “handbag technique”.