Aliona van der Horst

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SYNOPSIS VOICES OF BAM

Ever since the earthquake of December 2003, Bam in South Iran is nothing but rubble and ruin. Not only have its walls crumbled, exposing kitchens and courtyards, the hearts of its people too, happear to have fallen open. Like a ghost, the camera drifts through the town, recording the everyday events of Bam’s inhabitants and picking up the intimate, inner conversations they have with their dear departed. In doing so, the film also touches upon the relationship between men and women in Iran and their relationship to God. Above all, ‘Voices of Bam’ is an ode to the indefatigable life force embodied of the people of this town.

The film is inspired by photographs that were recovered from the town’s debris, the only tangible mementoes left of life before the earthquake.


“recalls the chorale of Wim wenders’s Wings of Desire”

“Virtuosic editing...the effect of which serves to collapse time in upon itself, conflating past and present.

“Present-day Bam remains elusive reminiscent of nothing so much as the necropolis described by Italo Calvino in his great book Invisible Cities: a place where the distinctieons between the living and the dead are at all times nebulous and conditional, subject to negotiation, conjecture, capitulation.



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