THAT HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME THE WHOLE TIME

A short film by Arash T. Riahi
Experimental short film  |  10 min  |  AUT  |  2013
A Co-Production with SILK Cie

SYNOPSIS

a body. a female dancer. a piece of drapery. a religion or still a tradition. a rope. extremities. Shreds of skin. Rough softness. Touches. Impossible. Down. Up. An experimental setup with tragical fate.

FESTIVALS (SELECTION)

Tanzhafen Festival Linz 2015
Int. Media Art Biennale Wroclaw 2015
Nashville 2015
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2015
BIEFF Bukarest 2014
This Human World Film Festival Vienna 2014
Indie Cork International Filmfestival 2014
Cambridge European Short Film Festival 2014
Berwick Film and Media Atrs Festival 2014
New Horizons Film Festival Wroclaw 2014
Hamburg Int. Kurzfilmfestival 2014
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014
Diagonale 2014
Prague Short Film Festival 2014
Cinema XXI International Film Festival Rome 2013

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

The film can be seen as a utopian suggestion. What happens, if you let a woman in a Burka do a performance, which could never be allowed to show publicly. At the end the set up is getting brought back to reality. We don’t claim this to be a real woman in a Burka, it becomes clear, that this is only a representation. The dancer Silke Grabinger is a body, which interprets something and can never really constitute the fate of those women.

INFO

RUNNING TIME – 10 minutes
ORIG. LANGUAGES – No dialogue
LOCATIONS – Austria
SUBTITLES – None
SCREENING FORMAT – DCP
SOUND FORMAT – Dolby Digital 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 1.1:78
PICTURES/SEC – 24

CREW

IDEA & DIRECTOR
Arash T. Riahi

CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Arash T. Riahi, Arian Jalaeefar

CHOREOGRAPHY
Arash T. Riahi, Silke Grabinger

EDITORS
Arian Jalaeefar, Arash T. Riahi

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Olga Swietlicka

PRODUCERS
Arash T. Riahi

PARTNERS