06 May Sealed Lips
Sealed Lips
2012
Narrative Video/Video Installation
Duration: 00:06:00
Sound Design Collaboration: Ai Yamamoto, Warran Hugo Wright, Rhett Wade Ferrell
Make Up: Roksana Mohit
Special Thanks: Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Yasamin Badiee, Shirin Fakhim, Hengameh Basseghi, Ali Chitsaz
Set in an empty factory, Sealed Lips is a story told through the eyes of Shahrzad from a Thousand and One Nights. This Shahrzad is now old and crippled, a witness to the injustice meted
out to contemporary Middle Eastern women; she no longer is the heroine she used to be.
* This video was initially created as a 9 channel video installation in 2005. In 2012 it was re-edited into a single channel narrative video with the addition of narration
Above are still Images captured from a video documenting Sealed Lips in the form of a video installation in 2005 – link to video documentation is here: https://vimeo.com/319399969
Sealed Lips in the short film linear form 2012 was ehibited at the Iranian Film Festival Australia in 2012 – Palazo delle Esposizioni, Rome 2012 and at Primo Piano Gallery Lecce, Italy 2013