Landscape Suspended
by Naghmeh Abbasi
Iran, Canada, 2022
synopsis
Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, Landscape Suspended reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.
about the directors
Naghmeh Abbasi is an artist and filmmaker based in Tehran. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Film, Video and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. Her work moves between experimental cinema and moving image practice, often attending to states of suspension, interiority, and constrained space.
Her other works include A Flat Surface Higher than the Ground (2020), My Voice Takes on the Tone of a Convict (2018), White Shadow (2017), Inertia (2016), When He Explores the Vast Universe of the Boat in the Middle of the Ocean (2016), and A Glimpse (2010).
