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Conversation between Sam Samiee & Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi

Conversation between Sam Samiee & Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi

Artists Sam Samiee and Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi reflect on the relationship between cinema, migration, and memory. Delving into how personal and collective histories are shaped through moving images. Moderated by film programmer Humie Pourseyf.

poster Humie Pourseyf – Washing the Eyes (© Kohyar Pourseyf)
Drawing from their own experiences and artistic practices, Sam Samiee and Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi reflect on cinema’s capacity to archive, distort, and reinvent memory across borders. Offering insights into how migration transforms the way stories are told, remembered, and depicted.

This also prompts a critical examination of the ethics of representation: who holds the right to represent, to remember, or to reinterpret collective histories? In navigating different cultural codes and expectations, both artists grapple with the responsibilities that come with narratives that are not only personal, but also politically charged and historically burdened.

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Production year

2025

Length

60 min.

Event language

English

Country

NL

Part of

Programmers of the Future 2025

Three new Programmers of the Future present their film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum this July. With films about the magic of a spontaneous encounter in a public space, about folklore, fairy tales and mythology, and about memory as an act of resistance.

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still The Day I Disappeared (Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi, IR/NL 2011)
campaign image Washing the Eyes (© Sam Samiee)
still Guests of Hotel Astoria (Reza Allamehzadeh, IR/NL/DE 1989)

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Programmer of the Future Humie Pourseyf selected several films to watch at home, including Reza Allamehzadeh’s Guests of Hotel Astoria and The Day I Disappeared by Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi. The films will be available from 1 July.

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