Writing on the City
| Writing on the City | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Keywan Karimi |
| Produced by | Keywan Karimi |
| Written by | Keywan Karimi |
| Music by | Bamdad Afshar |
| Cinematography | Arasto Madahi Givi |
| Edited by | Farahnaz Sharifi |
Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
Writing on the City (Persian: نوشتن بر شهر, translit. Neveshtan bar Shahr) Is a 60 minutes documentary film by Iranian Independent filmmaker Keywan Karimi that produced in 2012 and completed in August 2015. this film edited several time and It never been shown in public, apart from a trailer on Youtube [1] because Karimi in 2013 arrested by Revolutionary Guard Corps and in October 2015 sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court to six years Imprisonment and 223 Lashes for “propagating against the Islamic Republic” and “insulting religious sanctities. [2]
Reviews
Hamid Dabashi Author and Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University said , "Writing on the City an excellent documentary on the evolution of graffiti in Tehran over the last three decades plus , With his "Writing on the City , Keywan had brought the narrative of those graffiti down to the aftermath of the Green Movement of 2008 with an acute sense of history and aesthetics". [3]
Raoul Vaneigem, who is an active member of the Situationist movement, wrote a piece to express his appreciation when he saw Keywan's documentary film: [4]
“”To Keywan Karimi ; The wall is a mirror | A mirror of the house, of the city, of the world | Reflections of every shape and form stream by it as clouds do in the sky | We have learned to go through the mirror so what was closed will open up | The freedom of the walls breaks down the prison walls | When reality is unveiled, dreams become reality | Under the clothing of creeds and of ideas, what is lived is always bare | Then nothing more conceals a human being from himself | Someday the walls will have the transparency of our desires“”
References
- ↑ Trailer - Writing on the City
- ↑ TOI - Award-winning Iranian filmmaker gets 6 year prison and 223 Lashes sentence
- ↑ AL Jazeera - Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Keywan Karimi and me
- ↑ Raoul Vaneigem - The wall is a mirror
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