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Empty Chair

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Family · Social Criticism · Films about Film  

  • CountryIran
  • Production Year2008
  • Running Time100min
  • Format 35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
This film employs an impressive technique to blur reality and fiction. The method of narration that delivers the theme ‘God’s will’ and ‘the fate of human beings’ is very extraordinary. The film consists of three major episodes. One episode shows a couple agonizing over the decision to euthanize their newborn baby for his physical disabilities. The second depicts a career woman who was involved in a hit-and-run with a pedestrian on her way home. And the final episode portrays a filmmaker who is overwhelmed with guilt after killing a person by accident at a shooting site. Those positioned in desperate situations learn some advice from friends about God’s will and the fate of human beings, and that advice is the question which the director actually presents to the audience. The most remarkable characteristic in the format is the narration itself. Those three episodes are depicted as movies within a movie, and as the stories of people who are actually involved in making this very film. Therefore, the points of view play a significant role here. This poses the question: whose point of view is in the last episode? The director makes a great choice to present the movie, which leads the audience to a an animation in the end. It turns out that all the stories are made by characters in the animation. This represents the director’s wit which distorts the relationship between God and human beings.(KIM Ji-Seok)
Director
Saman ESTEREKI
Saman Estereki was born in 1981 in Khoramshahr, south of Iran. He began his film career in 2000 by directing the short film [WRAPPED IN A COCOON], which participated in different international festivals including Goteborg in Sweden and Cupolino in Italy. He directed his first feature [ONE STOP AHEAD] when he was 22 years old. His over short films include [You Really Can’t Tell Them in Front of the Camera](2006) and [The First Day of Conscript](2007). [Empty Chair] is his second feature film, the first on 35mm format.
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Credit
  • Director Saman ESTEREKI 사만 에스테레키
  • Producer Alireza SHOJANOORI, Iraj TAGHIPOUR
  • Cast Fariborz ARABNIA, Reza ATTARAN, Pantea BAHRAM, Farideh FARAMARZI
  • Screenplay Saman ESTEREK
  • Cinematography Hooman BEHMANESH
  • Production Design Saman ESTEREK
  • Editor Saman ESTEREKI, Alireza SHOJANOORI
  • Sound Babak AKHAVAN
  • Production Company BEHNEGAR , DEFC (Documentary & Experimental Film Center)
    No. 9. 3rd Floor, 22 Bahman Alley, Yakhchal St, Gholhak, Shariati Ave,. Tehran IRAN 194194

  • World Sales BEHNEGAR , DEFC (Documentary & Experimental Film Center)
    No. 9. 3rd Floor, 22 Bahman Alley, Yakhchal St, Gholhak, Shariati Ave,. Tehran IRAN 194194