New Media Talk Series #23
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Foundation

City Walls, a film by Aidin Bagheri
Wednesday, 27th April 2016 – 7 PM

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, “City Walls” a documentary film by Aidin Bagheri will be screened at Lajevardi Foundation from 7 pm, the event follows with a conversation between the director and Zarvan Rouhbakshan, art critique, University lecturer and Artist. They will open the Q&A session for the public. Bagheri writes about his film which has a brief look at urban art and graffiti art in Iran:

How our city can be desirable? How much the city landscapes are influential on our feeling of satisfaction? Can can right to adjust the city** be used in order to achieve the satisfaction without opposition to the city jurisdiction? Questions like this made us to investigate a fully available and new phenomenon like unofficial wall-writing** and to analyse it with a sociological approach in the form of image and interview with the writers and experts. This documentary tries to pose the problems and obstacle which these wall-writers are facing or if their activity causes a destruction to the face of the city or if it is an act of sabotage of an artistic action regardless of aesthetic subject or a routine resistance in opposition to the urban order in addition to a relative introduction of this phenomenon.

Duration: 60 minutes

Aidin Bagheri (b.1991, Tehran, Iran) is a sociologist, researcher, social documentary filmmaker and photographer. He graduated from Azad university of Tehran with a BA in social science in 2013. Also he graduated in 2015 with a MA in sociology from the same university, with an emphasis on the research on relation between social / civil issues as well as photography. His research is reflected in some articles and documentary films such as his recent films “city walls” and “Tehran Slack-Liners”. He is currently working with photography, collage and video besides his following his social science research.

Where: Lajevardi Foundation
No.20, Sepand Street, Nejatollahi Street,
Karimkhan zand Street, Tehran.
Tel: +9821 88921745

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