Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari presents her film A Moon for My Father in its first U.S. screening.
In this first collaboration with British sculptor Douglas White, the piece coins a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after their first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship. It explores the nature of skin, family, death, water, desire and, throughout, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatized, censored, and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.
Presented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR) at UC Santa Cruz.
Free and open to the public.
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