cinema trust The film “Silent City” was reviewed with the presence of the director Ahmed Bahrami and hosted by Rouzbeh Rahiminejad and Ehsan Tahmasabi, the film critic and writer, at the media screening.
According to public relations, Ahmed Bahrami, the director of the movie “Silent City”, stated in this program: “Before “Silent City”, I made “Silent Plains” and I have a trilogy in the cinema called “Silent” and the last part of these three Ganeh is the “silent man”. The story of “Silent City” was formed during the production of the movie “Silent Plain” and finally the work was filmed in 21 sessions.
He continued: In the structure of this trilogy, I followed the classic cut of black and white, and we came to the conclusion that due to the mood of the director, we should not widen the frame, and this pressure on the workers should also be observed in the frame, and the frame 4 to 3 was chosen.
This movie director explained: “Silent City” went to festivals in the middle of 1401 and we got the best director for this work in the Tallinn festival, and Baran Kothari was the actor of the film Prohibited in the same year. Some filmmaker friends outside of Iran got together and emailed many festivals not to film from Iran, and the movie “Silent City” lost a large number of festivals, and some Indian festivals did not film from Iran.
Bahrami recalled: Our conclusion was that according to the content of the film, a more specific audience should see this work and the film should be shown in the art and experience group. Today, only humorous cinema sells in public screening, and this number is much lower in art and experience, but “Silent City” has been better received than other art and experience films.
He mentioned about the sale of comic films: I myself, when we are going to spend time with my family, we watch a comedy film, of course, not just any comedy, but good things. It’s like this everywhere in the world and you can’t expect people to watch a 2-hour movie that will make them think.
Ehsan Tahmasabi stated that the release of the movie Silent City is a good event and explained: “Khamosh” and “Ahmed Bahrami” trilogy follows a path that owes to an idea in Iranian cinema that was followed by some filmmakers before and it is a pleasant event. that the great filmmakers of the world see Iranian films.
He continued: Film “Silent City” is the continuation of “Silent Plain” and is one of the works that is shown in a situation where the issue of women in world cinema is not taken into consideration and the issue of the film is not forcibly pinned to the film.
Bahrami went on to explain: The effort of the production team was to create this trilogy, and imagining these films would not have been possible without the presence of Masoud Amini-Tirani.
He recalled: We tried not to pin anything on the film and make it a universal issue, and I thought the film’s perspective should be bigger. When we make a movie, when the character speaks, they are connected to a geography, but we tried to make the words universal.
Tahmasabi emphasized: Storytelling is important in Iranian cinema; In these trilogies, the work of important filmmakers of cinema, including Belatar, can be seen in this cinema, but this does not mean Iranizing the silent plain and the silent city, and at the heart of the issue of the worker and woman, there is a story full of small details.
The director of Silent City said about the black and white nature of this film: The beginning of the Silent City trilogy was black and white, and we got a good response and we could not think about color, and I wanted “City of Silent City” to convey to the audience, like the silent plain, that the work is related to the present. is not
Tahmasabi also stated: For the audience, there are indicators that force him to get involved in the interval between two events until the next event repeats, and the audience begins to think. In this film, Baran Kothari has a conscious death in her and takes herself in the arms of death and shows another side of a searching woman, which is different from the old method of women in Iranian cinema.
Bahrami recalled: We have a plan in the film that I didn’t dare to record and we were thinking of a stuntman and I didn’t like Baran to be in that situation, but Baran stood in a dangerous position and he stood bravely and we repeated this situation again.
Unfortunately, Baran Kaushari is not only banned from working today, but they also informed me that he is banned from attending. I hope for the doctors and I voted for him twice and I stood by my vote hoping for change. We designed three posters, which Ershad removed, and we ended up with one more poster and lost the billboards. It was the first time I worked with an actor at this level and he was on stage an hour before me.
Pointing to the good performance of Baran Kaushari in the Silent City, Tahmasabi explained: Baran Kaushari’s presence in the Silent City is considered one of his performances. He is a more familiar face for the audience and can encourage the audience to watch such works more.
Even the presence of such faces in such works is more important than their presence in the theater. Many cinema audiences choose their movies based on the actors.
Nima Mazaheri, the director of the short film “The Suffering Characters of Jamande” also said in this program: The name of the film happened during the script, and when the audience sees the film and refers to the name of the film, they will understand the reason for this naming. This work is a completely free interpretation of a Japanese short story and I tried to borrow from this story to tell my own story. This movie was shot in 8 sessions and we tried our best to make the output decent. For me, the story, form, and content are preferable to awards, and our effort was not to speak directly, and if we had a symbol, it would be on another level.
In another part of this program, the upload series was criticized under the pretext of broadcasting from the media screen.