Paradise handbook : handbook on subversive strategies of a film made in Iran = Handbuch subversiver Strategien eines Films aus dem Iran = Mā, dar bihisht : daftarchah-i rāhnamā / Barth, Bokaie ; editor: Andreas Baur, Anka Wenzel ; essay: Ali Ebrahim Beygi ; translation: Edith Watts, Uli Nickel, Reyhan Bokaie, Eskandar Abadi.
Paradise handbook : handbook on subversive strategies of a film made in Iran = Handbuch subversiver Strategien eines Films aus dem Iran = ما، در بهشت : دفترچه راهنما Barth, Bokaie ; editor: Andreas Baur, Anka Wenzel ; essay: Ali Ebrahim Beygi ; translation: Edith Watts, Uli Nickel, Reyhan Bokaie, Eskandar Abadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barth, Alec, author.

Bokaie, Reyhan, author.

Beygi, Ali Ebrahim, author.

Contributor:

Baur, Andreas, editor.

Wenzel, Anka, editor.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Iran.

Paradise (Motion picture : 2015)--Exhibitions.

Paradise (Motion picture : 2015).

Ataeian Dena, Sina--Exhibitions.

Ataeian Dena, Sina.

Motion pictures--Iran--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Handbook on subversive strategies of a film made in Iran

Handbuch subversiver Strategien eines Films aus dem Iran

Mā, dar bihisht : daftarchah-i rāhnamā

ما، در بهشت : دفترچه راهنما

Place of Publication:

Köln : Snoeck, [2018]

Language Note:

In English and German.

Summary:

Paradise handbook reveals a concise insight into the genesis of the film Paradise, which director Sina Ataeian Dena managed to realize in Iran over a period of many years without filming permission and on a very small budget. The resulting footage was eventually brought out of the country and processed and finished in Berlin-Babelsberg. Paradise celebrated its premiere in 2015 in competition at the Locarno Film Festival and was subsequently awarded various prizes. The book reveals a fascinating view of how the film crew dealt creatively with the massive restrictions on filming in Iran. It breaks down, like a manual, the logistical, strategic, and technical efforts underlying the images and scenes that the team applied to circumvent the plethora of restrictions.

Paradise handbook' reveals a concise insight into the genesis of the film 'Paradise', which director Sina Ataeian Dena managed to realize in Iran over a period of many years without filming permission and on a very small budget. The resulting footage was eventually brought out of the country and processed and finished in Berlin-Babelsberg. 'Paradise' celebrated its premiere in 2015 in competition at Locarno Film Festival and was subsequently awarded various prizes. The book reveals a fascinating view of how the film crew dealt creatively with the massive restrictions on filming in Iran. It breaks down, like a manual, the logistical, strategic, and technical efforts underlying the images and scenes that the team applied to circumvent the plethora of restrictions. Created as a documentary feature film, 'Paradise' presents the viewer with seemingly mundane scenes of life. However, to create the impression of a realistic representation of everyday life meant that very complicated precautions had to be taken. Iranian censorship, especially of feature films, scrupulously regulates everything that could somehow be understood as critique, such as the (absolutely necessary) concealment of female characters; and to show adolescent girls dancing to pop music in a school bus or during school breaks, is completely unimaginable.00Exhibition: Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (25.3. - 3.6.2018).

Contents:

Introduction / Alec Barth & Reyhan Bokaie

Paradise handbook: Artificial realism

What do you think? This is not Switzerland!

Realistic texture vs. the perfect timing

Girls! It's such a shame! / texts and captions, Alec Barth & Reyhan Bokaie

Interviews: I think that every Iranian is an actor / Dorna Dibaj

Sound constitutes reality / Martin Steyer & Lajos Wienkamp Marques

Telling stories with sound / Lajos Wienkamp Marques

Now we know: everything is possible / Yousef Panahai

Cinema is a game / Sina Ataeian Dena

Essay: Disappearing into the voice of the law / Ali Ebrahim Beygi.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hidden/Secret -- Strategien des Verborgenen at the Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, March 25-June 3, 2018.

ISBN:

9783864422485

3864422485

OCLC:

1050744158