Etäisyyden Monumentti

Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of the song Ayrılıq – Separation. The performance is from 1970s television show and it has been copied several times from one videotape to another . Ayrılıq could be a love song but it is told that composer Ali Salimi (who at the age of 16 moved from Soviet Azerbaijan to Iran with his family and left many of his loved ones behind) wanted to make music about his sense of longing. I was searching for another song when I found this performance on YouTube. I could watch the video again and again and try to get a deeper understanding of it . I could use the performance as a mirror for the part in me that is of Iranian and Azeri origin. I could compare my sense of longing with the degraded video image and the lyrics of the song. And in my eyes the found video grew into a monument of distance – a presentation of disconnection, images, memory and mixed identification.

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Etäisyyden Monumentti regisserades av Azar Saiyar.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 7 minuter är Etäisyyden Monumentti en produktion från Finland. Originalspråket är finska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa Etäisyyden Monumentti i Sverige.