The showdown between the authorities and artists came to a head in with the detainment of Panahi, who was subsequently sentenced to a six-year jail term and a year ban on making movies. Incredibly, the filmmaker was undeterred. In , he made a video diary on his phone while awaiting trial, ironically titled This is Not a Film: it was snuck out of Iran on a flash drive inside a cake, and played at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now serving his sentence under house arrest, he continues to make films, including Taxi, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin in , and most recently 3 Faces, which won Best Screenplay at Cannes. In , Hossein Rajabian started making a film, The Upside-down Triangle, about women's divorce rights.
Finally, I was released on bail until trial. That hearing took place in After serving three years in prison, I'm am now on bail. Unfortunately, I do not have citizen rights now. Upon release, Rajabian returned to doing what he knows best: he has now made a new film, Creation Between Two Surfaces, which will soon be released online. Creation Between Two Surfaces is about a married couple who make money by signing up to psychological testing experiments.
She has had two abortions, in any case, and is now not sure she can go through with a third. It's a film about state control, mental trauma, and the impossibility of feeling freedom. The future is not only dark but also wholly unpredictable and ambiguous.
The danger of war on the one hand, and the pressure of the international community with sanctions, on the other hand, has completely isolated Iran in the world, and it has exerted tremendous psychological pressure on the population. Last month saw the premiere of La Fortaleza, a rare film from Venezuela, where filmmakers are under pressure not to displease the government Credit: Jorge Thielen—Armand.
Given all the trouble Rajabian has gone through, it may seem surprising that he still wants to make films. I have been in prison for years, so I can't just give up filmmaking because I paid a heavy price for it. Cinema gives me the experience of unlived lives, untravelled travels and my imaginary world, and that is my biggest motivation for filmmaking. New technologies, such as 4K cameras on phones and stills cameras, have also helped filmmakers such as Panahi and Rajabian, who are forced to make films clandestinely.
Long gone are the days when making a movie to a sufficient quality for public screening required huge cameras and reels of film. Also, with everyone recording videos on their phone all the time these days, filming now looks like a deceptively ordinary, everyday activity. Consequently, it's harder for the authorities to control. While making a film is not banned, pressure is put on those that displease the government.
You can see that on their Twitter for example. Many of the crew working on La Fortaleza were scared of repercussions. We had people from Conatel, that exercises the regulation, supervision and control over telecommunications in Venezuela, show up at the house of the producer asking questions. Amand's partner Mo Scarpelli, who has previously made films in the similarly tough political climates of Afghanistan Frame by Frame and Ethiopia Anbessa , has made an accompanying documentary about filming La Fortaleza in Venezuela that will debut later this year.
However she says that her "previous films were dicier in terms of protecting the subjects' security or determining when my presence could put them at risk. Venezuelans are not hiding their pain - they are speaking out about the crisis. She says "Many governments are becoming very sophisticated with using misinformation to keep their people, and artists or filmmakers, on edge or unclear about the threats against their speaking their mind. You worry about ruining the lives of the crew, by making your art, so that threat has a bearing on your artistic process.
The power of cinema as a communication tool to the outside world is such that more and more filmmakers from repressive and authoritarian regimes are embracing the medium — even as some of those regimes are showing chinks of light.
When Haifaa al-Mansour made her debut film Wadjda in Saudi Arabia in , it was at a time when the country had no cinemas, and making films was illegal: so she hid her camera equipment in a van. Now eight years on her latest film The Perfect Candidate has been the first film to receive government funding, while cinemas have opened in the Kingdom. You go and apply. You need government support for making films about women's rights and things like that.
It's important to have public funds for films. It remains to be seen how this will translate into the type of films made. If you have an existing account on sanitas-skincare.
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I did like that it was psychological horror and not like Pandorum, but at moments it just seemed too stupid and too silly to be taken seriously. There are much better psychological space horror movies out there like Solaris and Solarum, or whatever that one with the psychologist was called. Dude I saw Cabin in the Woods on Saturday.
Truly loved the Truth or Dare seen. Thanks for all the comments folks! Weird movies hold that place for all of us. Van Pelt!! I loved Event Horizon. That movie was the most genre defying movie since Scream.
While i dont exactly have fond memories of The faculity, Ill have to check it out again because its been a long time. But Im very surprised to see someone actually enjoyed the mess that was Red State. I was very excited to watch it and couldnt believe how bad it was at times. Everything else on the list was fun though. I especially enjoyed Event Horizon for a good scare. A few friends and I still try and trick people who havent scene it by describing it as a love story in space.
Their afterwards reaction is always priceless. I totally agree about Cabin in the Woods. Just saw it and my mind was blown! My boyfriend and I were both going crazy during that scene. That horror flick has it all. Super gore and agreed, it is legitimately funny too! Seen all but Red State. Some real terrifying scenes, for sure. Event Horizon was such a fantastic film. Not that many people know about it, suprisingly. Welp, learn something new everyday.
This was painful to read. Yeeeeah no. After all, he wrote it, right? Also, if the real-life director hates the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise so much why is he making the worst sequel yet? Might not technically be all horror but: Antichrist, starts out like a poetic melodrama on child loss and goes from there. Funny Games, the original version.
Works like a hospital soap opera with loads of comedy but integrates the scary stuff oh-so-well. Red State was a terrible movie.
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