Parisa Sassani: As evidenced by history and based on existing documents, including the media, including the field of written content, online and documentation, they always tried to record social events. However, the experiences of the last two years have shown the presence of the media in the general sense, and of course documentary cinema, whose inherent task is to record pure realities in the society, and basically, the festival of Iranian documentary films, according to this important principle, has given the title “Cinema of Truth” to this important festival. They chose a movie; They could not or did not want to record the events as they should. As a result, people’s cameras with the title “Citizen Reporter” came to life instead of professional documentaries in recording events.
One of the factors of trustworthy documentation is in recording the truth of the society and not touching the facts, which has been manifested more than ever at the social level, especially after the social events of 1401 or with the presentation of the Hijab and Chastity bill.
To show social issues and women, we have readings of taste
Hadi Afride, who made three short fiction films and three documentaries and more than 30 independent documentary titles, including “Memory of Ni Avaran”, “Chenaristan”, “Animal Club”, “Saf Salam”, “Kariz, Qaseh Ab”, “Campuses” Khyal”, “Lost Gardens”, “Blue Truck” and “Holain in Iran” in his professional portfolio, as well as the documentaries “Naqalgerd Afrid”, “Morning Ceremony” and He made “Tehran Simin” with a social approach to women’s issues; He told the KhabarOnline reporter: The issue of the documenter’s duties in recording events reminded me of my own history and documenting experiences. In this way, in different eras from almost 2 decades ago until now, there has not been a project or film that I have produced that has not had any problems until it wants to see the color of the curtain. In fact, always to show various issues, whether historical, social or women’s issues, which especially in the past years have become the main issue of society regardless of women or men; We are caught up in readings of taste and period, which are different in each period compared to managers and people who come to work as cultural decision-makers, and in other words, we are faced with different readings and behaviors.
Documentary photo of “Tehran Simin” about the life of Fateme Motamedarya
I was responsible with documents
He continued: I remember the movie “Quotation of Gurd Afrid” which was produced in 2015 by the Center for the Development of Documentary and Experimental Cinema, was screened in the second edition of the Truth Cinema Festival as well as the Fajr Film Festival, which was under the leadership of Safar Harandi in the Ministry of Guidance. Show income. But a year later, I was accused of having produced a film promoting corruption and prostitution, despite the fact that the film basically belonged to a government center and I was held accountable for a long time with documents. In fact, it was shown in a period when strictures were far more than today. So I remember the hard days.
The director of the movie “Tehran Simin” which depicted the life story of Fatemeh Motamedarya; In the continuation of his speech, he pointed to the media function of documentary cinema and said: The reality is that when we talk about documentary cinema, we realize that everywhere this cinematic medium is used as a powerful media tool to record events and communicate with the masses. Different social classes are used for culture building and it is at the top of the media productions in the world. But in Iran, we are facing a bankrupt documentary cinema that is completely owned by the government, and a larger part of this field is dependent on television, which with the current management of television, especially the current director of the documentary network, is practically no place for professional documentary in the real sense. This is despite the criticism for the TV documentary channel; I was making a movie and I said I was making my own movie. For example, I defined projects for the global registration of Iran’s gardens, aqueducts, or the topic of education in ancient times to modern schools, which had good social and educational effects, but it is unfortunate that currently television cannot tolerate these films and The current documentary network basically does not allow documentaries.
We do not know how the new audit readings are defined
Afrideh also did not consider these tasteful behaviors only for production management and said that there are personal readings in festivals as well. He explained: In the case of festivals, these behaviors became a matter of taste, but unfortunately, in the past few years, festivals and the approach to documentary film productions have become security and every step of ours is subjected to security readings. Even documenting, because I have a cultural, heritage and historical approach to issues, I am plagued with problems and work. With all these challenges, when we get to production, we don’t know how the new audit readings are defined. Because the time of production, the reading of the audit plan has one condition, and when the production is finished and the work is presented, there are still other audit conditions in the country.
With the implementation of the law of chastity and hijab, a large part of the society is removed
In response to this question, how much does the documentary maker consider it his duty to record and document special conditions by promulgating and implementing the law of chastity and hijab? He stated: In a very short answer, it should be said that with this bill, a large part of the society will definitely be removed and it will have very bad consequences even for the legislators. Currently, documentary makers are either removed from almost all events and social events in the contemporary history of the country, or they remove themselves due to special conditions that are applied. Therefore, in social events, it is definitely these people who express their narrative of the story. And well, I have never called it documentary cinema because they are the only documentary images that can be used for both documentary impressions and abuse.
Photo of the documentary “Naggurd Afrid”
Limiting documentaries leads to the emergence of non-official streams
He emphasized: In my opinion, it is better for the people who wrote this law to have firstly thought about the consequences of this plan and secondly to pay close attention to the fact that restricting documentaries, media and journalists not only does not cure pain, but also causes The existence of other currents becomes official, perhaps professional people can be removed; But what do people do with mobile cameras? And these popular images and citizen journalism have their impact, which are narrated with unofficial and amateur readings, and can make the events look more upside down than what they are. Meanwhile, independent, fair, honorable and authorial professional documentary makers can stand where they are only narrators of history. I always say in my classes that if you want to narrate a reality, don’t narrate it like a TV channel or like Iran International because they both exaggerate the same story and both sides of history or events based on their point of view. They say that as a result, none of them is true and it is a fabrication and people do not pay attention to it and this will happen in the non-professional type of documentation, but the well-known documentary maker of this country does not go into the subject even with a legal license because he knows that this approach is viewed It has a package As a result, it reached a point where we turn off the cameras ourselves because we have seen that the consequences are many, and with this approach, people recorded the fact that the earth to the sky is different from documenting.
How long is a documentary maker allowed to turn on his camera?
Sam Kalantari, who has directed the movie “Rukh” in this period of the “Truth” cinema festival, and also directed the movie “There is no place for angels” with the theme of women’s sports, stating that it should be checked that the camera of a documentary maker To what extent can it record the facts of a community; He said: In the last three years and after the social events of 1401, the issue of hijab was raised, but in my opinion, this trend goes back to many years ago during different events, such as the Koi University incident in 1378, the presidential election of 1388, gasoline in 1398, and in general These incidents raised the question of how much a documentary maker is allowed to turn on his camera?
Photo of the documentary “No Place for Angels”
Recording events in other countries does not have the color of security
This documentary maker continued: I believe that a documentary maker’s camera lights up differently when social events occur in different countries, and when various forms of protest occur in the world, in many countries we see that cameras are on the street without the activity of the documentary makers. Smell security. This is despite the fact that many things in our lives have been done by us or by the security officials. This is despite the fact that documentary makers could examine our oral history in this topic and record the political and social issues of the country long ago.
Photo of the documentary “No Place for Angels”
He pointed out: For this reason, as a documentary maker, I don’t really know what the solution is, and as long as the events of the society are looked at from the lens of security, every movement can appear scary and dangerous, as a result, the streams are closed with the label of security.
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