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Octo

A poetic expression of finding inner peace in a busy and polluted city...
[Filmed and Developed on Smartphone/Samsung Galaxy note3]

  • Pegah Izadian
    Director
  • Pegah Izadian
    Writer
  • Pegah Izadian
    Producer
  • Erik Satie
    Music
  • Pascal Roge (Pianist)
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 20, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 6th Toronto Smartphone Film Festival
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada
    June 15, 2017
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 1st Berlin Flash Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    June 30, 2017
    Official Selection
  • 7th MINA - Mobile Innovation Network Australasia
    Melbourne
    Australia
    October 25, 2017
    Australasian premier
    Official Selection
  • 1st African Smartphone International Film Festival
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    December 8, 2017
    African Premier
    Official Selection
  • San Mauro Film Festival
    Turin
    Italy
    Semi finalist
  • SmartPhilm Festival
    Washington, DC
    United States
    June 2, 2018
    North American premier
    Official Selection
  • MoziMotion Festival

    Netherlands
    October 11, 2019
Director Biography - Pegah Izadian

Pegah Izadian is an Iranian visual artist, based in Tehran and graduated from Tehran University of Art with an M.A. in Directing Animation. She has worked as a director, screenwriter, lecturer and puppet designer and has published four articles discussing the field of contemporary experimental animation.

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Director Statement

“Octo” is an experience about making moving image by using smartphone as a new media. In this project I was trying to make a movie all by my intuition and natural inspirations. The idea of this film first came to me when I was watching the rainbow and listening to the track I used. I had so many emotions like solitude, hope and living apart from nature in Tehran, the busy and polluted city. So I recorded a thirteen seconds video of the rainbow and developed it into eleven other videos by using a mobile application and kaleidoscopic effect. Using this technique, I made this film from twelve short films created by my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and I synced them with the music. After all, I noticed that this film is an exact visualization of that first image I saw inside-out. I also need to mention that I have received permission from the copyright holder of the music, Mr. Pascal Roge, to use his work in my film.