Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerg es 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 neighborhoods 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.

Director(s): Sara Rajaei | 2024 | 21 Min.
Language: Persian with English subtitles
Country: Iran

Screenings and tickets

Sunday 8 June 2025, 17:00

Friday 6 June 2025, 19:00

Director(s)

Sara Rajaei is an Iranian-Dutch video artist and filmmaker based in The Netherlands. 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. Her artistic oeuvre consists of short films and video installations, which remain in-between storytelling and imagery. After her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2002, Rajaei attended a 2-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Prix de Rome. She is currently developing her first feature film, Headless Trees, with support of the funding scheme The Imagination (De Verbeelding) of Netherlands Film Fund, produced by near/by film in co-production with seriousFilm, Ladybirds Film and Alambic Productions.