The House Is Black and The Movement of Things

The film magazine Revü, which was launched in Munich four years ago, collects thoughts on a wide variety of films in highly subjective, enjoyable essays. The magazine is bringing two documentaries to Arsenal.

Khaneh siah ast

First, the short film by poet Forough Farrokhzad KHANEH SIAH AST (The House is Black, Iran 1962), which focuses on daily life in a leper colony near the Iranian city of Tabriz, will be shown and the Revü essay published for it will be read.

O Movimento das Coisas

The second film, O MOVIMENTO DAS COISAS (The Movement of Things, Portugal 1985) by Manuela Serra is a visual poem that tells the daily lives of three families in the north of Portugal. In long takes, it devotes itself to the protagonists in the silent passing of the times of day, the sun in the fog, age-old gestures of work and living together - and it also has an enchanting original soundtrack. Both works are the first and only films by these two - long-forgotten - filmmakers, from whom we would have liked to see many more.