Paradise handbook
Subtitle: handbook on subversive strategies of a film made in Iran = Handbuch subversiver Strategien eines Films aus dem Iran = Mā, dar bihisht : daftarchah-i rāhnamā
By: Barth, Bokaie ; editor: Andreas Baur, Anka Wenzel ; essay: Ali Ebrahim Beygi ; translation: Edith Watts, Uli Nickel, Reyhan Bokaie, Eskandar Abadi
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783864422485
Subjects: Exhibitions; Motion pictures; Paradise (Motion picture : 2015)
Other titles: Handbook on subversive strategies of a film made in Iran; Handbuch subversiver Strategien eines Films aus dem Iran; Mā, dar bihisht :
Description: Paradise handbook reveals a concise insight into the genesis of the film Paradise, which director Sina Ataeian Dena managed to realize in Iran over a period of many years without filming permission and on a very small budget. The resulting footage was eventually brought out of the country and processed and finished in Berlin-Babelsberg. Paradise celebrated its premiere in 2015 in competition at the Locarno Film Festival and was subsequently awarded various prizes. The book reveals a fascinating view of how the film crew dealt creatively with the massive restrictions on filming in Iran. It breaks down, like a manual, the logistical, strategic, and technical efforts underlying the images and scenes that the team applied to circumvent the plethora of restrictions.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hidden/Secret -- Strategien des Verborgenen at the Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, March 25-June 3, 2018.

In English and German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alec Barth & Reyhan Bokaie; title: Paradise handbook: Artificial realism; title: What do you think? This is not Switzerland!; title: Realistic texture vs. the perfect timing; title: Girls! It's such a shame! / texts and captions, Alec Barth & Reyhan Bokaie; title: Interviews: I think that every Iranian is an actor / Dorna Dibaj; title: Sound constitutes reality / Martin Steyer & Lajos Wienkamp Marques; title: Telling stories with sound / Lajos Wienkamp Marques; title: Now we know: everything is possible / Yousef Panahai; title: Cinema is a game / Sina Ataeian Dena; title: Essay: Disappearing into the voice of the law / Ali Ebrahim Beygi.