German premiere
English, Farsi with English subtitles

Farang traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran, exploring historical synchronicity, serendipity, and coincidence across British-Iranian archives. Using family footage shot on trips to the country in the early 1990s, artist Mina Heydari-Waite combines a personal archive with source materials concerning 19th and early 20th century British presence in the region. Finding that her family’s route mapped onto that which was followed by the British Indo-European Telegraph Line – an administrative apparatus of the Empire which stretched across Iran for over fifty years – Heydari-Waite reflects on the interplay between familial histories and their wider socio-political frameworks.

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