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Samira Eskandarfar
Samira Eskandarfar (*1980 in Tehran, lives in Tehran) studied fine art at the Danushgah-e Henr-e Tehran and works with both painting and video art. Her main themes concern the conditions of everyday life in Iran, which is characterized by modernization efforts and, at the same time, by traditional norms and constraints.
Work Title
Year
Duration
Details
Collaboration / Compilation
Number
A Dowry for Mahrou
2006
00:06:05
NTSC, color, sound
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E017 01
This work, developed in the framework of a workshop by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, documents a marriage in rural Iran with a focus on the 13-year old bride and the ritual around her dowry. With latent critique, Eskandafar comments on the documentary shots by accelerating the traditional music and by using texts that explain the images and create a distance to the event.