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Winner of the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Included in The Best Video Essays of 2020 & 2021 by Sight&Sound magazine. Synopsis: Using excerpts from films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema. - “Collating scenes of mediated intimacy in Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory’s ’Irani Bag’ is a quietly moving instruction on ’how to touch without touching’“ [Essay Film Festival, London] “A video essay that deconstructs a cinematographic motif in order to propose a powerful textual and political analysis of censorship and intimacy in post-revolution Iran. Irani Bag not only exposes a codified vocabulary, it also invites the spectator to reconsider the relationship to (and between) sight and touch.” [London Short Film Festival Award] @maryamtafakory