Director | Sara Rajaei
Script | Sara Rajaei
Editing | Nathalie Alonso Casale
Sound designer | Hugo Dijkstal
Producer | Manon Bovenkerk
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illusion founded on poetry.
When the system changes, and war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees, and the existing street names are replaced by new ones. Abrupt and sweeping upheavals lead to confusion among the city’s residents, who soon find themselves lost amid the memories of the forgotten poets.
About the director:
Sara RAJAEI (1976, Iran) is an Iranian/Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Tehran and the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in the Hague, where she specialised in 3D art. After graduation in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space.