Writing on the City (2016)
- Original title
- Neveshtan bar shahr
- Directed by
- Keywan Karimi
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Iran
- Runtime
- 1h
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at graffiti in Tehran and the people who create it. The filmmaker began the project in 2012 and completed it in 2015.
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What happens
Writing on the City (Persian: نوشتن بر شهر, translit. Neveshtan bar Shahr) is a 60 minutes documentary film about graffiti in Tehran by Iranian Independent filmmaker Keywan Karimi. The Karimi started working on the documentary in 2012 and completed it in August 2015. It has since been edited several times and has been shown in several film festivals. Karimi arrested in 2013 by Revolutionary Guard Corps and in October 2015 sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court to six years imprisonment and 223 Lashes for "propagating against the Islamic Republic" and "insulting religious sanctities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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