Gom O Gour
Into Thin Air
Director
Mohammadreza Farzad
Iran / 2010
26 min.
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
Farsi
A short documentary film about the “Bloody Friday” massacre, which took place on September 8th in 1979, in the same month that the director of the film was born. It concentrates on an excerpt of less than a minute from this horrifying footage, which documents the shooting of innocent people, unaware of an official curfew, by soldiers in Jaleh Square in Teheran.
In its attempt to find out more about the identity of the victims, the film can be seen as a way of reading through moving images that can be applied to any political massacre.
Mohammadreza Farzad works as a filmmaker, translator, writer, researcher, and actor. He lives and works in Tehran. In addition to GOM O GOUR, two more of his films have been shown in the Forum Expanded program.
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