Prelude to a New Horizon

7 short films by the Left Bank Collective Sunday, 8th of February At the Cube Cinema

We are very happy to present a screening of a collection of short films, followed by a conversation with the Left Bank Collective.

Officially formed in 2018 in Iran, Left Bank is an autonomous, non-affiliated cinematic collective that seeks to dismantle conventional film production methods and hierarchical educational structures by adopting a council-based framework.

Left Bank has produced and presented dozens of non-fiction films with documentary and experimental approaches. Its educational and film production workshops annually recruit members through open calls for several-month-long programs, engaging in continuous film production that is presented in public screenings.

The key principles of Left Bank include: showcasing, retrieving, and rediscovering overlooked and abandoned peaks of non-fiction cinema; rebelling against dominant and established cinematic grammar; minimizing the notion of delay in cinema; reviving collective and responsive cinema; opposing cinematic centralization and the hegemony of fiction film; eliminating hierarchies in education and production; redefining the economics of cinema; and creating no-budget and low-budget works using lightweight tools.

The films in the screening are:

01-Epilouge in Prologue-Zahra Qodsi- 14min,19sec

02-Hegemony-Maryam Mortazavi-7min,40sec

03-Hermit of Greece-Maedeh Mohsenpour-3min,55sec

04-A mountain Away-Musa Ibrahimi-15min, 19sec

05-The first of the homelands-Gooya Naemi.mp4-3min, 53sec

06-And it was snowing in the burnt room-Fatemeh Akbary.mp4-32min,56sec

07- Before seeing-Amin Heydarifar-12min,43sec

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