Charismatic fates and vanishing dates

Sara Rajaei

On the same day as my grandfather’s death, my cousin left home and never returned…

I had two friends whom without I could not live…
Their laughter I remember, their absence I don’t believe…

Came a fairy out of the blue, collected my coins, kept a few…

On the same day as my grandfather’s death my cousin left home and never returned…
My brother was playing in the street… as he ran after my teacher’s wig, which had blown away; he got hit by a car…

Miracle survivor he was said to be…

I knew a young man, that survivor’s friend…
He’d left but he had never returned …
A teacher had said his fate was that all…
Her hair like a wig I can still recall …

I was walking together with my two best friends when that little girl robbed me,
Then I saw you for the first time…

My grandfather I only once had held…
Never dared to touch his cotton hairy head…

Last week last year I don’t remember…
Still those all remain together …

Came a fairy out of the blue, collected my coins, kept a few…
Of my little brother she reminded me…

SHAHRZAD

The film is a poetic dialogue of emotions, a review of ideas of the poetess (Shahrzad) in an almost silent language.

To show her so called ‘universe’ I needed to see her house the same way, with all its details. The chairs, the tables, bookshelves and every object in that house plus her own body I have seen as parts of a landscape.
With the cameraman Morteza Poursamady, we tried to film that landscape in details and in movement. We tried to film as much texture as we could.

The border between real and unreal, how imagination combines with reality and moments of Déjà vu and memoirs make my films. I have a sort of obsession with the past and Shahrzad lives in a nostalgic world. Her only connection to the everyday life and to future is her poetry.

Since I began to spend time with this woman, I realized that “I” did not matter anymore. The way she treated me, and the way she sees the whole universe turning around her, often makes me disappear. So I am neither there to speak about what I think nor am I there to question her.

Kijk voor een preview van de film Charismatic Fates and Vanishing Dates in de on-line catalogue van het NIMk