Faraz Anoushahpour Movies

  • 2022
    Surface Rites

    Surface Rites

    Surface Rites

    02022HD

    A young Slovakian immigrant opens a uranium mine near Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, and later builds a massive replica of the modest church from...

    Surface Rites
  • 2017
    Heart of a Mountain

    Heart of a Mountain

    Heart of a Mountain

    02017HD

    The chasm between languages is explored through a photograph of a volcanic stone slice in Taiwan. As technology attempts to foster translation and...

    Heart of a Mountain
  • 2024
    Lovers' Wind

    Lovers' Wind

    Lovers' Wind

    02024HD

    Lovers’ Wind, takes its starting point from the helicopter crash at Karaj Dam near Tehran that killed French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in...

    Lovers' Wind
  • 2022
    The Time that Separates Us

    The Time that Separates Us

    The Time that Separates Us

    02022HD

    The Time that Separates Us circles an ancient salt-rock formation overlooking the Dead Sea, near Ghor Al-Safi, Jordan. In the process, this Pillar of...

    The Time that Separates Us
  • 2018
    Chooka

    Chooka

    Chooka

    02018HD

    In 1973, the Shah of Iran commissioned the construction of a paper factory in the lush northern province of Gilan. The arrival of heavy industry in a...

    Chooka
  • 2015
    Bunte Kuh

    Bunte Kuh

    Bunte Kuh

    52015HD

    A faltering narrator attempts to recount a family holiday as memory — sparked by a found postcard, a family photo album, and footage from two...

    Bunte Kuh
  • 2020
    Dictee

    Dictee

    Dictee

    02020HD

    This text explores the dislocation between mouth and language in the Asian diaspora. It charts both the breakdown and breakthrough of language...

    Dictee
  • 2018
    Pictures of Departure

    Pictures of Departure

    Pictures of Departure

    02018HD

    In winter of 1986 our mother writes in her diary: “To scratch the surface of a subject does not penetrate deep into the subject”. Almost...

    Pictures of Departure
  • 2018
    If All That Changes Quickly

    If All That Changes Quickly

    If All That Changes Quickly

    02018HD

    In an age of collective anxiety around issues of safety – be it global, national, or personal –we are interested in the ways in which...

    If All That Changes Quickly
  • 2018
    beach

    beach

    beach

    02018HD

    beach is a recreation of a live performance originally presented at Mercer Union in Toronto in June 2018. An expanded prologue for the film Chooka,...

    beach
  • 1970
    Charity

    Charity

    Charity

    01970HD

    In July 2017 residents of the Markham suburban development of Cathedraltown awoke to find a chrome replica of a prize-winning Holstein cow, double...

    Charity