Postscript

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour & Ryan Ferko
2024, iran/ canada, hd video, 30 min, farsi with English subtitles
In Postscript, the drowned footage recovered from the Karaj Dam in Iran, where French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse crashed in 1970, resurfaces. His Le vent des amoureux was completed and released by his wife and son eight years later. Iran’s Ministry of Art and Culture additionally created a short film intended as a postscript, in homage to both the filmmaker and the Pahlavi regime’s vision of progress. It was released at the dawn of the Iranian Revolution just before the ultimate downfall of the Shah. Postscript is anchored by a phone conversation with an Iranian archivist, speculating on Lamorisse’s death and the restoration and circulation of his final images.

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