Tell Me
Saiyar Azar
A narrator asks: “Do you know this bird?”. The video quotes both public and private archival images in which birds are in the centre – birds as individual living beings but also as creatures habiting the world and stories created by humans.
Production Year
2019
Duration
00:07:44
Tyyppi
Asiasana
archival materials, birds, countryside, experimental films, media art, narrator, nature, nature programmes (media), species, tales, thrush nightingale, video art
Original Title
Kerro minulle
English Title
Tell Me
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Azar Saiyar (Author), Azar Saiyar (Director), Azar Saiyar (Editor), Azar Saiyar (Producer), Azar Saiyar (Script), Johannes Vartola (Sound Design), Anni Tani (Actor), Koneen säätiö (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Mariliis Rebane (Other )
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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