Book Launch Blind, ins Auge

In the organizer's words:

Based on the short film project Blind, ins Auge, the publication of the same name deals with the role of political images. The central question is: What happens when seeing itself is suppressed?

The book is based on images, videos and experiences from the protests in Iran in 2022 and 2023. Many of these images were taken by people on the ground and disseminated via social media. They show violence, resistance and the attempt to become visible.

Blind, in the Eye brings together different perspectives. The focus is on questions of seeing and not seeing, proximity and distance as well as violence, resistance and memory.

The publication sees itself as a critical examination of the political dimension of images. It examines how images work, how they are read and where their limits lie. Film does not appear as a neutral form, but as a practice that intervenes, makes visible and contradicts.

For the publication, artists and authors were invited to develop their own perspectives on the topic:
Kianoush Akhbari, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Aylin Kuryel, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Florian Wüst and Fırat Yücel.

Mehrad Sepahnia (1986, Tehran) is a filmmaker who explores the relationship between politics, narrative, image and sound in his work, with the questioning how cinema can create spaces for rethinking, and exploring the boundaries between reality and fiction. He starts in Iran with a no budget film and takes a hybrid approach to filmmaking that challenges conventional perspectives and invites viewers to engage with content and form by perceiving and feeling them.

Atefeh Kheirabadi (1990, Tehran) is a filmmaker. Her artistic practice moves between film, participatory processes of filmmaking, and political image criticism. Her works are often created in collective processes and combine documentary, essayistic, and fictional forms. She develops projects that deal with exile, resistance, body politics, and the role of the image in times of political violence.