Private Project

L

LORA and L are trapped in a cell. Dancing, they try to recall their last ever choreography. A memory that becomes more and more unattainable, with every movement and every dance exercise.
This film is a tribute from the Iranian director to all generations of women and people in Iran and Afghanistan who, because they dance or sing, are locked up in prisons.

  • Pariya Bakhshi
    Director
  • Pariya Bakhshi
    Writer
  • Fabian Martin Anger
    Director of Photography
  • Benze C. Werner
    Key Cast
    "L"
  • Erika Winkler
    Key Cast
    "LORA"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    L
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Director Biography - Pariya Bakhshi

Pariya Bakhshi, born 1997 in Hiroshima, an Iranian filmmaker and artist, lives in Germany and studies film at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, since 2019. She grew up in Iran, Tehran and studied Design in Tehran University of Fine Arts. For her the act of making art and film becomes political , among others, through breaking the conventions and borders of the mediums. One of her main topics is the notion of freedom and exile, as she explores in her autobiographical essay-film Displaced in Time. Her focus in fiction is to translate the unspoken from our reality into a surreal film world, through the expression of the body, beyond language. Hence she works primarily with dancers, such as in L , VELODROME and ANAMORPHOSIS.

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