2008 Films

City of Cranes / Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!

• Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!

  
  2006. Iran. 67 mins. Directed by Massoud Bakhshi. Produced by Massoud Bakhshi. Executive produced by Mohammad Reza Khodaveici..

  This self-reflexive musical/comedy/documentary imaginatively juxtaposes eye-opening archival material, painterly contemporary footage, and mock interviews to create a breathtaking fusion of Koyaanisqatsi’s hypnotic visual aesthetics and Monty Python’s wry sardonic humor. Part critique of Western colonialism, part cultural history, part political satire, and part apocalyptic premonition, this film is no dry, shriveled fruit. Like fresh pomegranate, its structural intricacies are bursting with life, color, and complex flavors. TW

• City of Cranes

  
  2007. United Kingdom. 14 mins. Directed by Eva Weber. Produced by Samantha Zarzosa.

  The London skyline is the stage for Eva Weber’s ballet mécanique, featuring graceful cranes and their observant and thoughtful operators. The four compact chapters of this contemplative film reveal the delicate power of the massive machines as they sweep and pluck above the picturesque London horizon, quietly affirming that the mundane can be made memorable. TM

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