"Un regard sur l'animation iranienne contemporaine"

Finally the idea I was working on for a long time cam into life and it happened! A selection of 22 animations produced in Iran during the last 10 years was programmed to be shown as part of the Cinemathèque Québécoise's spring program.

Below is an interview between Détective Animé and Parissa (Two souls living in the same body) on the how and why I decided to work on this idea.


Un regard sur l'animation iranienne contemporaine

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Détective Animé @ fishing all through the winter

I took sometimes off from my blog. I went on a trip, I watched a lot of Iranian short animations from the last 10 years. I met a lot of independent animators and filmmakers. I will soon write a post about this project.

 At the end of my trip to wonderland I came back home and it was white everywhere. I started a new job and I reduced the speed of my life a bit. Winter helped me look at what I've already done and where I eventually want to go.

 While I was in Tehran,I started to draw what fascinated me in my daily life and I continued that at my return on a daily, weekly basis. Surprisingly, my ideas are transferred so differently on the paper that I get to realize and to accept that what I seem to see is not what I really see. In other words what I think I see is not really what I see. The image I keep in my mind from my surrounding is a mix of what is transferred through my eyes + what I like to see + what I already have in my mind at that moment.

I put these drawings on my instagram . You find a link to this page on the right column of my blog. It's snowing again!

Détective Animé @ Eucalyptus sauna

Sketching for "STEAM", an idea for a short animation based on stories of a public, eucalyptus sauna. 

Détective Animé@ More pain, more film!

Trying to dance flamenco made me accept  that I need to do something before it's too late. Being 33 and by nodoubt one of the weakest women of our group in terms of muscle force is not something to be proud of!

So I decided to give swimming another try and that's how the first sparkles for an animation film appeared as I was under the shower in the changing room area.

More pain, more film!

Voila the first tests for this idea.

Détective Animé@ Conversations with Ai Weiwei

A great reading on art and blogging. Weiwei became an architect by accidentally buying a book. This book was about an architect who decided to design a house for his mother.  Wiewei became a blogger but he didn't have any idea how these things  work, but he seized the opportunity when they offered him an empty online space called a blog to fill with words.

Being open to the unknown and confronting life and it's unexpected moments are the keys to his successful career.

"After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product."
Ai Weiwei, "Ai Weiwei speaks, with Hans Ulrich Obrist" 

Détective Animé@ The Question

Last two months were full of projects to be done, future projects to work on, trips and ideas to develop. I will send them one by one. For now here are some frames from the first tests I've been working on  for "The Question", a short animation film  I'm animating on for Eye Inside Films in Toronto.