Women.life.freedom

the film's name is changed to silence.

I'm made a short film, and my main approach was for non-Iranians to take action about the movement in Iran. I believe everyone in the world can have a normal life because of feminism and the women’s rights movement. Every person that believes in feminism or women's rights could do something about what has been going on in iran. the film is 03:58 minutes. It displays a very normal life of a Rotterdam inhabitant. For instance, people walking down the street or talking to each other or going somewhere with their child. Everything that would remind a Rotterdamer of their life and is familiar to them. It reminds the audience that they have this freedom of a normal life because other people fought for this rights in the past.

in terms of technical decisions, i implemented the use/faking of long lenses with my camera to heighten the sense of distance. i chose to use my personal camera which is sony alpha 7riii to capture the moving images and try to get the best quality out of that. it took a long experiment for me to get over my fears of having a camera in the streets. i wanted the pictures to be beautiful and poetic, not just documentary. the practice of creating such thing was a very good learning point in my artistic path which i was nit used to. the final result came out satisfying to me.

In the end, through a series of questions that audience can/can not relate to, are gonna see how many people died in Iran because of this revolution and basic rights. when at the same time, the inhabitants were just having, for example, their coffee. In the western world, I think we forget to use our privileges. If you believe that men and women are equal and that women can have all the rights to do whatever they want, then you believe in feminism. I'm made this film to remind people that they can actually use this freedom of speech. I think that nobody expects you to care, but if you care and take action on it, you can say that you’re a feminist or believe that everyone should be equal.