Nocturne #2 | Nokturn #2

Running time: 12'
Pieter Geenen, BEL 2012, 12’

A static shot of an alley in Tehran. Minimal changes in brightness. A view of an empty street, at the end of which we can barely make out figures moving. The traffic lights are flashing and the absence of life becomes overwhelming. A four-lane street: luminous, full of light points: blocks of flats. The centre, apogee of the light is Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower), around which the events from the most recent history of Iran concentrated: the Iranian Revolution 1979, nationalist and patriotic demonstrations during the war with Iraq, protest following the 2009 presidential elections. The film was made with a mobile phone camera in Spring 2011. During the Arab Spring the regimes defended themselves against the protesters by cutting them off from telephone and Internet connections.

Authors:

  • Pieter Geenen

    Pieter Geenen, born 1979, lives and works in Brussels. After his Master's degree in photography he completed the international postgraduate program Transmedia at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels. In his work he shows interest in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape, in relation to the personal and collective memory and identity. He wishes to translate the complexity of a certain geo-political or geo-social reality into a general reflection on the concept of borders, (home)land, (national)identity and migration. In his work the image manifests itself slowly, exploring the subtle and hidden characteristics of things. Listening and watching becomes intense, intimate, alienative, contemplative and almost tangible in an undisturbed stillness.

    Pulsation (2011)
    Relocation (2011)
    Nostalgia (2009)
    Atlantis (2008)
    Nocturne (2006)

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