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Azar Saiyar

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Azar Saiyar is Helsinki-based filmmaker and visual artist. She often uses archive materials and plays with images and words of collective memory to look towards ways of looking, speaking, remembering and telling stories. She also does collaborative works with other artists. Her films have been screened at international film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museum and television.

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My Home

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Laila’s Apple

Director

Composed of television archive footage shot in one classroom, as well as a number of interviews, Laila’s Apple is a film about learning and remembering.

Tell Me

Editor

A narrator asks: ‘Do you know this bird?’

Tell Me

Producer

A narrator asks: ‘Do you know this bird?’

Tell Me

Writer

A narrator asks: ‘Do you know this bird?’

Tell Me

Director

A narrator asks: ‘Do you know this bird?’

Monument of Distance

Director

Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of the song Ayrılıq – Separation. The performance is from 1970s television show and it has been copied several times from one videotape to another. Ayrılıq could be a love song but it is told that composer Ali Salimi (who at the age of 16 moved from Soviet Azerbaijan to Iran with his family and left many of his loved ones behind) wanted to make music about his sense of longing. I was searching for another song when I found this performance on YouTube. I could watch the video again and again and try to get a deeper understanding of it. I could use the performance as a mirror for the part in me that is of Iranian and Azeri origin. I could compare my sense of longing with the degraded video image and the lyrics of the song. And in my eyes the found video grew into a monument of distance – a presentation of disconnection, images, memory and mixed identification.

History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails

Director

We used to believe that being left-handed could lead to criminality, stupidity, and immoral behaviour. So we tried to educate our children not to use that hand. History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails is a short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit.

Primus Tempus

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Reorganized fragments of television commercials create an illusion that is different from the original clips. The images are still enchanting and appealing, but lack a direct connection to the product. The context and interpretation become more vague and open.

Helsinki–Tehran

Director

Between places. Between people. Helsinki–Tehran is a cinematic study on immigration and memory – on the shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional understanding which travels with displaced people from one generation to another.