Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance screened at Tallinn Photomonth’s Film Programme

Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) will be screened as a part of Tallinn Photomonth‘s film programme. The video is included in the screening “East from West“. The screening, curated by Ingel Vaikla, takes place on Wednesday, October 2, at 18:30 in Kino Sõprus.

In Monument of Distance, 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 had migrated from Soviet Azerbaijan to Iran and left behind his home and loved ones) wanted to make music about his sense of longing.

Azar Saiyar is a 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, remembering and storytelling. Her films have been screened at international film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museums and broadcast on television.


Screening: East from West, October 2 2019, Kino Sõprus / Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia

More information: Kino Sõprus


AV-ARKKI HAS PROMOTED AND DISTRIBUTED FINNISH MEDIA ART SINCE 1989. AV-ARKKI’S PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS HAVE MADE THE ARTISTS’ PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT POSSIBLE.