Monument of Distance
Saiyar Azar
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.
Production Year
2018
Duration
00:07:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
archival materials, Azerbaijan, documentarism, experimental films, generations, Iran, longing, lyric poetry, memories (mental objects), migrants, music, native countries, personal narrative, singers, video art, Youtube
Original Title
Etäisyyden monumentti
Finnish Title
Etäisyyden monumentti
English Title
Monument of Distance
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Azar Saiyar (Author), Azar Saiyar (Cinematographer), Joonas Kiviharju (Cinematographer), Azar Saiyar (Director), Azar Saiyar (Editor), Azar Saiyar (Producer), Azar Saiyar (Script), Johannes Vartola (Sound Design), VISEK (Funder)
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Azar Saiyar
Born: 1979
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.
11 works