As I Lay Dying
Pegah Ahangarani, Mohammadreza Farzad
2025, Iran
15 mins, Stereo, HD, Color, Farsi
Sinopsis / Synopsis
As I Lay Dying menyusun ulang rekaman video amatir dari demonstrasi Green Movement 2009 di Iran menjadi fiksi biografis tentang mereka yang turun ke jalan, bertahan hidup, dan kembali menjalani keseharian. Lewat arsip yang direproduksi dan diintervensi, film ini memperlihatkan bahwa ingatan politik tidak pernah tetap. Ia terus berubah dalam sirkulasi gambar, dan kematian yang tak selesai diwariskan pada yang hidup.
As I Lay Dying re-edits amateur footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Movement into a biographical fiction about those who took to the streets, survived, and returned to everyday life. Through reproduced and intervened archives, the film shows that political memory is never fixed. It shifts constantly in the circulation of images, and unfinished death is inherited by the living.
Director’s Biography / Biografi Sutradara
Mohammadreza Farzad (l. 1978, Teheran) memulai karier perfilmannya dengan Into Thin Air (2011) dan Blames and Flames (2012), yang keduanya tayang perdana di Berlinale Forum Expanded. Ia pernah menjadi mahasiswa doktoral di Film Factory di Sarajevo. Film-filmnya telah diputar di lebih dari tujuh puluh festival internasional, termasuk IDFA, CPH:DOX, dan Sheffield, dan ia pernah menjadi juri di CPH:DOX dan Ji.hlava.
Pegah Ahangarani (l. 1984, Teheran) adalah sineas, aktris, dan musisi asal Iran yang kini tinggal di London. Karya penyutradaraannya meliputi film-film dokumenter esai I Am Trying to Remember (2021) dan My Father (2023), yang keduanya tayang perdana di IDFA dan meraih penghargaan internasional. Ia pernah ditahan dua kali pada 2009 dan 2011 karena aktivitasnya terkait Gerakan Hijau.
Mohammadreza Farzad (b. 1978, Tehran) begans his film career with Into Thin Air (2011) and Blames and Flames (2012), both of which premiered at Berlinale Forum Expanded . He was a PhD student at the Film Factory in Sarajevo. His films have screened at over seventy international festivals, including IDFA, CPH:DOX, and Sheffield, and he has served as a jury member at CPH:DOX and Ji.hlava.
Pegah Ahangarani (b. 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker, actress, and musician based in London. Her directorial work includes the essay documentaries I Am Trying to Remember (2021) and My Father (2023), both of which premiered at IDFA and received international awards . She was twice arrested in 2009 and 2011 for her activism related to the Green Movement.
