Irani Bag
Directed by Maryam Tafakory · 2020
A split-screen video essay that uses clips from Iranian films made between 1990 and 2018 to show how bags stand in for forbidden touch on screen.
An award-winning video essay that reveals how Iranian cinema smuggles intimacy past its censors.
Winner of the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival
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