Root Canal
Root Canal – 2012, B&W, 60 min A film by Samira Eskandarfar A young woman who has just started a serious relationship revisits it through a series of dialogues with two others: a woman with extensive experience of relationships and a woman who has lost both her legs. Across these conversations, the three speak about love, marriage, desire, the body, loss, and death, gradually arriving at new understandings of themselves and the world. In her first feature film, Eskandarfar constructs an abstract and shifting space where inner and outer lives collide. The film moves between realism and surrealism, tracing the paradoxes produced by social expectations and the tension between what these women want and what is demanded of them. Through its experimental structure and stark compositions, Root Canal forms a personal cinematic language that draws viewers into the characters’ memories, vulnerabilities, and contradictions. Venue: Sazmanab (Sazman-e Ab St.) Monday, November 19, 2012 – 9–10 PM
