Still Life

Dec 7, 1978

1h 30m

★ 6.8

Overview

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

New Film Group and Telefilm

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Cast

Mohamad Sardari

Zadour Bonyadi

The Old Man's Wife

Zahra Yazdani

Hibibollah Safarian

Majid Baghaie

Hedayatollah Navid

Mohammad-Reza Samimi

Noorollah Googlani

Hossein-Ali Bidogli

Mohammed Kani

Mahini

Ali-Hossein Astarai

Khosro Zandi

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances volumising the cataclysms of thresholds. Experience the absence of definition, the absence of boundaries set and the absence of rationale. A myth is not to be understood, a myth is passed on, like a game of Chinese whispers, it takes its course and ages with time, suiting the demography and tale, it warps and distorts

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Still Life

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