Primus Tempus
Azar Saiyar
»When I was collecting, organising and editing pictures for this film, I was searching for ways to look at commercial images as a part of a narrative that does not aim to sell or persuade.«
Azar Saiyar
The advertising industry likes to rummage in the canon of images relating to art, nature, science and pop culture. Images that are thus constantly reproduced in everyday life. It’s precisely this repetitiveness that intrigues Azar Saiyar.
Film programme Imaging an Image
Azar Saiyar
Azar Saiyar is a Helsinki-based film-maker and visual artist. Often relying on archive material and playing with images and words of collective memory, she searches for ways of seeing, remembering and telling. Her films are shown at international film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions and museums. At the Silhouette Festival, her film Monument of Distance won the Prix du Jury Hybride in 2019.
Films by Azar Saiyar
My Home 2022 | Tell me 2019 | Monument of Distance 2018 | Hey You! 2017 | Catalogue Dialogue 2017 | History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails 2016 | Primus Tempus 2014 | Ring 2013 | Helsinki-Tehran 2013
