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These images are camera essays and exercises that Mahine had shot. This is also the portrait of director Birgit Schiemann whose face was demolished after she had been attacked in Georgia, than reconstituted with the help of plastic surgery. Images date from before the time of the aggression. Since then, we have lost contact... Dusty images have been thrown in a bin and then multiplied and, craftly, tell us about a time of the past, a lost time found again through film. The ghost of Brigit is now fixed in time, but is she still alive?
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"Yâd: the memory.
Childhood memory strucks by the war.
The adult finds comfort and support rapt of contemplation over wild landscapes and sings life in a hardly murmured pain..."
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"A hand-painted film by Mahine ROUHI made using blades of grass, stones, a buzzard's feather and Chinese ink. The film was then printed and modified with an optical printer during a residency at MIRE's workspace (Nantes)." -Olivier FOUCHARD "A big sheet to protect the table, some stones, a bird's feather and a variety of foliages – Chinese ink - to dip, put down, grate, remove, go over it again and to let it dry." - Mahine ROUHI
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"Dirty" images. Super8. Landscapes and delicious abstractions. Images shot in 1997 by Mahine ROUHI, framed like a photographer would do and hand-processed in an improvised lab "Le Métronome" (Marseille). Blow-up in l'Abominable, in 16mm, in 2006.
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A grand and mythical landscape tries to get rid of its past. A cleansing, a rebirth on celluloid. - IFFR
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The pace of the film, step by step, sometimes blind, sometimes radiant, a one-way ticket, long before or after the story itself, brings the image to fruition. Like a mineral, enigmatic, a fragment of an ancient language.
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An escape from a dream back to earth, phenomenally ringing sound poetry. All of this happens whilst waiting for the miracle to pass away. PTKHO is a dreamy riddle, a reflective experiment by Mahine Rouhi.
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"A form emerging from the cinematographic material paces mountain trails. Singular irruption that disappears and blends into nature and its representation. There is no more separation, or so little, between being and the world, yet irreconcilable. The voice is tense, it becomes this arc between nature and the character that seems to bring back to the surface of the screen cinematic flashes forever forgotten. The film of Mahine ROUHI convokes other times which inscribe the transition from one state (psychic, physical) to another. These changes occur at different speeds, on different emulsions according to various treatments. The plasticity that results is not the least quality of this film that revives the mythopoetic cinema. " Yann BEAUVAIS .
