License Plate
Directed by Shiva Niroumand- Iran
- Experimental
- Farsi
- Subtitled
- 2024
- 11 mins
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shareThe tale of a decrepit car, shown in six decades, depicting different time periods across Iran. Each decade is indicated by characters who are either the passengers or the temporary owners of the car.
Directed by Shiva Niroumand
Director’s Bio: Iranian artist Shiva Niroomand was born in 1992. She attended Tehran’s Zima Arthouse to study fine arts in 2018. In 2020, she had enrolled in classes at Artsense School of Arts and Photography to study photography. From 2020 to 2022, she attended the Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture to study screenwriting. She has experience working as an assistant director in 2022 and as a set photographer in 2023. License Plate is her first short film as a director
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On the Road
“…The answer might be that people, many people, have lost all their political bearings. Mapless, they do not know where they are heading. Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home but a chosen destination. Road signs, airport embarkment signs, terminal signs. Some are making their journeys for pleasure, others on business, many out of loss or despair. On arrival they come to realize they are not in the place indicated by the signs they followed. Where they now find themselves has the correct latitude, longitude, local time, currency, yet it does not have the specific gravity of the destination they chose. They are beside the place they chose to come to…” – John Berger, Ten Dispatches About Place
