New Visual Narratives in Lodz is now over!

3 days filled with debates on technology, film, art and changes in contemporary culture landscape, a VR exhibition and film screenings. Thank you for being with us!

New visual narratives—the slogan that guided the first edition of the conference, and around which we are focusing our contemporary thinking again today, refers to completely different associations and meanings than just a few years ago. The idea of how stories can be told using immersive media and the language of film and visual arts has been subjected to many tests and has had to be revised. Every artistic expression that goes beyond the existing means of expression and questions the limits of the medium is born in a constant process of trial and revision—a process that starts again and again. The laboratory we established in 2019 was a testing ground for dozens of artists and producers from around the world. It has also been the site of many discussions, discoveries, surprises and failures, without which no creative process would be complete. However, we were not working in a laboratory environment isolated from our surroundings. Reality is changing in front of our eyes and both the creative process itself and the themes taken up in the works by artists resonate with it.

We want to capture these moments and discuss them with an international group of artists and theorists interested in the interface between film and digital media.

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Subtotals was awarded with the Golden Apricot for best short film at the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. 

Congratulations!

 

Subtotals

Director and screenwriter: Mohammadreza Farzad
Sound design: Hasan Shabankareh
Editing: Amir Adibparvar
Music: Afshin Aziz
Post-production: Hamidreza Fatourehchia
Produced by Lodz Film School Executive Producer, Road River Films
Producers: Krzysztof Franek, Kuba Mikurda, Stanis?aw Liguzinski, Afsun Moshiry, Dagna Kido?

“Subtotals” at international film festivals

We’re pleased to announce international film festivals, where our production from Film Essay Studio – “Subtotals” by Mohammadreza Farzad will be presented.

Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival • Forum Expanded. Germany (2022)
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival • Poland (2022)
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival • Germany (2022)
New Horizons International Film Festival • Poland (2022)
Golden Apricot International Film Festival • Yerevan. Armenia (2022)
MDOC Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival • Portugal (2022)
DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival • Kosovo (2022)
Melbourne International Film Festival • Australia (2022)

“Subtotals” (Majmouan) is an essay film about an accounting never being applied to one’s life’s products. Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel “Autoportrait” by Édouard Levé, and wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, Majmouan is a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you any bills.

Subtotals

Director and screenwriter: Mohammadreza Farzad

Sound design: Hasan Shabankareh

Editing: Amir Adibparvar

Music: Afshin Azizi

Post-production: Hamidreza Fatourehchia

Produced by Lodz Film School Executive Producer, Road River Films

Producers: Krzysztof Franek, Kuba Mikurda, Stanis?aw Liguzinski, Afsun Moshiry, Dagna Kido?

“Subtotals” at IFF New Horizons!

 

After the world premiere at the IFF Berlinale, “Subtotals” from our Film Essay Studio will be presented at the IFF New Horizons.

“Subtotals” is a film about the aftermath that can never be applied to one’s life as a product. Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and “Autoportrait” by Edouard Leve, composed fully of 8mm home movies of Iranian society.

Subtotals is a meditation on the uncertainties of life that doesn’t hand out any bills.

 

Screenings:
25.07 4:15 pm
28.07 7:15 pm + filmmakers Q&A
30.07 1:15 pm + filmmakers Q&A

 

Subtotals | Sumy cz??ciowe | Majmouan

dir. Mohammadrez Farzad

prod. Lodz Film School, Road River Films