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Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory wins the 2024 Film London Jarman award
Tafakory’s blend of reality and fiction is ‘a compelling exploration of displacement, memory and resistance’ according to the judging panel
The censorship of intimacy is a theme through Tafakory’s work – from the abstract, non-linear narrative film Nazarbazi(2022) to the following year’s Mast-del, which explored a forbidden relationship between two women. In a forthcoming interview with the Guardian, Tafakory explains how she revisited the archive of post-revolution Iranian cinema during lockdown so that she could “write on to them the stories that they never told us, and talk about what has always been buried in plain sight … I want these images to confess. Photograph: Courtesy the artistScreenings and exhibitions of Tafakory’s work have previously taken place at venues including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Cannes and the Toronto international film festival.
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