GRS Draft Proposal (Sara)

What do you want to make?

a short experimental abstract film, preferably mid length (20 mins but i’m not sure if i can do it ). A visualized version of my feelings in certain times that I felt I'm missing a part of me. To answer the question What would happen if we miss something in our identity? Showing something that is not there by visualizing silence, missing, empty in different things. The object,surface,anything that is missing a part would be me, and the missing part would be representation of the parts in my identity that are missing.

How do you plan to make it?

Deep dive into all of the moments I felt I am missing something and think about how or what I want to show from that. Basically I wanna show my feelings through film. such as a film timeline or taking out chunks from a 3D object. Visualize me an object and take out things from it. Money ( i felt like i am in a bondage and i can’t move that much - i was alive and breathing but no one could see the strings around me) Getting censored ( hiding behind a big umbrella) Music Camping Insecurities Overthinking Poetry ( feeling an empty rectangle in right side of my body ) Sports (badminton - bouldering ) Skydiving Cartoons Social media Physical contact Cooking Little things Being from iran ( feeling to much - feeling a lot of side eyes on me) Work with avid to create 3D objects and avoid the filming because of the limitations?! limitations : No daylight to shoot one person filming and editing and recording and writing the script Writing a script for a story Go through all of my twitter bookmarks and read watch and listen to all of them. Read anything that is related to identity. Capture all of these and put them together on one surface like the piece from joanna-dead,over and over. Get inspired a lot by sunday nobody. Read about people who don have an identity for example.

why do you want to make it?

Workflow (two or three sentences)

Splitting the project into two stages. The first stage is reading/writing the script and making it very clear what I wanna make. Make everything as clear as possible. Write down the shots or feelings or anything involved in the project. the second stage is to start shooting and editing at the same time and getting feedback on the project.

Timetable (Sept 23-July 24)

Sep - dec : done with the project’s script and idea, make prototypes, present the project proposal in december.

December - july : shooting and editing.

Relation to previous practice

All I have done till now was related to identity .Identity itself is the body of my practice and I am going into different paths to show any feeling related to identity. I wanna answer the question What is it about identity that i am so obsessed with it? To show my feelings towards it. I come back to it because i want to feel like a person and not lose myself. Have something that represents me.

Relation to a larger context

Who can help you and how?

Choices made (two sentences)

Making everything simple like one element in the picture Working more digitally and not filming Sound design, using very complex sound design for a very simple visual.

References :

Joanna - dead, over & over Sunday nobody All you see - niki padidar

Second Version

What do you want to make?

a lot of things are invisible in our world.

our identity is one of them.

identity is a fluid subject that can change in so many different shapes.

i’m gonna focus on how social media became a battle field or an artficial form of a free world for iranian woman to create and express their identity as an individual. how the goverment is taking away that world now days in iran and A visualized version of feeling a loss when we loose our identity as an object through social media.

a lost part like a hole, like a bug in the system, like a empty space in a video editing timeline. like an empty instagram account.To answer the question What would happen if we loose a part our identity? visualizing silence, missing, empty in different things.

How do you plan to make it?

started interviewing bloggers/influencers/ actresses from iran who had a public instagram account and lost it as a result of getting arrested by the goverment.

the govermnet takes over the individual’s instagram account when they arrest them and they post a picture mentioning the account is disabled due to sharing content that is not aligned with islamic rules.

i walked through people’s experiences with this event and i’m trying to ask three main questions :

1. how much do you feel your instagram account is your true identity and show who you are?
2. how was the experience of loosing you identity or a part of it as a result of getting arrested?
3. now that the event has passed and you have to live your life with more limitations how do you think your identity changed or what is life like now?

i try to tie these down with my own experience of loosing my identity as the result of migrating to a free country.

why do you want to make it?

all of this goes back to me, i’m trying to express my feelings of identity loss through something that can be heard and seen.

i chose to visualize my feelings with this subject because identity is a very broad subject to talk about. i am a very present person on social media and it was always a place for me to be myself for a second without any limitations. even tho it always had to be hidden. i had to think what’s it like to loose it? and there it was, in front of my eyes. all of friends in iran who lost a very big part of their life. through the last year after woman life freedom it finally became visible to me the way iranian woman used it to rise their voice and be themselves for a second. a lot of them took off their hijab on social media even the most famous actresses. something that in the new world is very basic and we don even think about it in our daily life.

how an entertainment platform became a battlefield for so many people.

another reason for me to make this work is to be the voice of people who have always been in hiding. who are loosing the only thing that ties them to a free world.

Workflow (two or three sentences)

Splitting the project into two stages. The first stage is reading/writing the script, doing interviews etc. Write down the shots or feelings or anything involved in the project and make sketches. the second stage is to start shooting and editing at the same time and getting feedback on the project.

limitations : No daylight to shoot, one person filming, editing, recording and writing the script.

Writing a script for a story. Go through all of my twitter bookmarks and read watch and listen to all of them. Read anything that is related to identity. Capture all of these and put them together on one surface like the piece from joanna-dead,over and over. Get inspired a lot by sunday nobody.

Timetable (Sept 23-July 24)

Sep - dec : done with the project’s script and idea, make prototypes, present the project proposal in december.

December - july : shooting and editing.

Relation to previous practice

All I have done till now was related to identity .Identity itself is the body of my practice and I am going into different paths to show any feeling related to identity. I wanna answer the question What is it about identity that i am so obsessed with it? To show my feelings towards it. I come back to it because i want to feel like a person and not lose myself. Have something that represents me.

Relation to a larger context

Who can help you and how?

Choices made (two sentences)

Making everything simple like one element in the picture Working more digitally and not filming Sound design, using very complex sound design for a very simple visual.

References :

Joanna - dead, over & over Sunday nobody All you see - niki padidar