Hey You!
Saiyar Azar
To be productive, to produce, to be a product. To have a value because of being productive. A very common mindset for an immigrant. “I have to prove my right to be here with being useful.” This kind of thinking in me I resist. It gives me a lack of motivation to participate in any forms of producing. Also producing words. And these words pour out from my fingers. “You, hey you, you must learn to shake your hands, shake your body, shake that ass, shake your fingers, hard, so hard, that from the tips of your fingers drop millions of stars.”
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:07:20
Tyyppi
Asiasana
body image, experimental films, hands, migrants, money, multiculturalism, music, poems, productivity, words
Original Title
Hey You!
English Title
Hey You!
Production Countries
Finland,Germany
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Azar Saiyar (Author), Joonas Kiviharju (Cinematographer), Biitsi (Composer), Azar Saiyar (Composer), Azar Saiyar (Director), Azar Saiyar (Editor), Azar Saiyar (Script), Biitsi (Sound Design), Azar Saiyar (Actor), Alfred Kordelinin säätiö (Funder), AVEK (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