THERE
Rojin Shafiei
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Experimental Canada 2022 Persian/English subtitles 0:07:01
There… refers to an unknown country which the protagonist calls home. A borderless land with no features and nothing but soil. There is no architecture in this home, neither physically nor spiritually.
The soil represents an entity that embodies the potential for growth. It refers to the country, Iran; a place of multi-faceted possibilities.
In Persian literature, Iran is a feminine name and still many people are named Iran; a motherland which gives birth, wherein growth takes place. On Wikipedia, the most basic search on the internet, it states “a country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation). It is often referred to as the land of an individual's birth, residence or citizenship.”
The short film draws upon the question whether the protagonist truly considers herself as the resident or citizen of that unknown land?
In order to physically be in this country, the protagonist is forced by the interviewer to be dishonest and doubt her thoughts.
In the end, it is she who has to leave that land and carries There with herself.