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SUMMARY:Leftbank & LAB111 present Fragile Traces: Iranian Experimental Shor
	ts
DTSTAMP:20260601T215645Z
DTSTART:20260626T173000Z
DESCRIPTION:LEFTBANK & LAB111 PRESENT FRAGILE TRACES: IRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL 
	SHORTS\n\nOn June 26th\, we are screening a series of Iranian experimental
	 shorts by young\nindependent filmmakers\, where memory is not a return to
	 the past but a trace\nstill moving through the present — unfinished\, car
	ried in bodies\, voices\,\nlabour\, and images.\n\nMade under conditions o
	f war\, political pressure\, and social instability\, these\nfilms treat l
	ived experience as something fragmented: memory broken into moments\nwithi
	n the present\, found in domestic silence\, the rhythm of work\, bodily\nt
	ension\, the instability of sound and image. The traces they follow are at
	 once\npersonal and collective\, political and everyday\, moving between v
	isibility and\ndisappearance. This is experimental cinema as attention to 
	what is still\nhappening\, not as documentation.\n\nAssembled shortly befo
	re the recent war on Iran\, the films now feel haunted by\nthe possibility
	 of their own disappearance — gestures interrupted mid-motion\,\nimages al
	ready damaged\, lives lived under pressure. Cinema has always existed\nclo
	se to loss: yesterday it was nitrate stock and decay\, today corrupted har
	d\ndrives\, broken transfers\, and displacement. Drawing on Left Bank and 
	underground\ntraditions\, these works approach cinema less as storytelling
	 than as a fragile\nact of keeping traces alive.\n\nThe screening is follo
	wed by a Q&A.\n\nThis program is curated by Banafsheh Jokar\n[https://www.
	instagram.com/banafshejokar?igsh=MWRrajdlc2gzNGZ6dA==&utm_source=qr]\nand 
	Ali Jamshidi\n[https://www.instagram.com/image_and_life_farsi?igsh=MWRjM3B
	6NTI1YmN4OQ==] in\ncollaboration with the founder of Leftbank\n[https://ww
	w.instagram.com/leftbank_cinema?igsh=MWRlaWkzMDgwMDJncA==]\, Parham\nSarke
	shiki [https://www.instagram.com/sarkeshiki?igsh=MWUza3hodzJweGJ2dA==].
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/leftbank-and-lab111-present-fragile-tra
	ces-iranian-experimental-shorts
GEO:52.3637259;4.8676321
LOCATION:LAB111 - Arie Biemondstraat 111\, 1054 PD Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,experimental,film,oud-west,overtoombuurt,shorts
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h1>LEFTBANK &amp; LAB111 PRESENT FRAGILE TRAC
	ES: IRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS</h1> On June 26th, we are screening a seri
	es of Iranian experimental shorts by young independent filmmakers, where m
	emory is not a return to the past but a trace still moving through the pre
	sent — unfinished, carried in bodies, voices, labour, and images.<p>Made u
	nder conditions of war, political pressure, and social instability, these 
	films treat lived experience as something fragmented: memory broken into m
	oments within the present, found in domestic silence, the rhythm of work, 
	bodily tension, the instability of sound and image. The traces they follow
	 are at once personal and collective, political and everyday, moving betwe
	en visibility and disappearance. This is experimental cinema as attention 
	to what is still happening, not as documentation.</p><p>Assembled shortly 
	before the recent war on Iran, the films now feel haunted by the possibili
	ty of their own disappearance — gestures interrupted mid-motion, images al
	ready damaged, lives lived under pressure. Cinema has always existed close
	 to loss: yesterday it was nitrate stock and decay, today corrupted hard d
	rives, broken transfers, and displacement. Drawing on Left Bank and underg
	round traditions, these works approach cinema less as storytelling than as
	 a fragile act of keeping traces alive.</p><p>The screening is followed by
	 a Q&amp;A.</p><p>This program is curated by <a href="https://www.instagra
	m.com/banafshejokar?igsh=MWRrajdlc2gzNGZ6dA==&amp;utm_source=qr" target="_
	blank">Banafsheh Jokar</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/image_an
	d_life_farsi?igsh=MWRjM3B6NTI1YmN4OQ==" target="_blank">Ali Jamshidi</a> i
	n collaboration with the founder of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lef
	tbank_cinema?igsh=MWRlaWkzMDgwMDJncA==" target="_blank">Leftbank</a>, <a h
	ref="https://www.instagram.com/sarkeshiki?igsh=MWUza3hodzJweGJ2dA==" targe
	t="_blank">Parham Sarkeshiki</a>.</p>
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