Fish & Cat. 2013. Directed by Shahram Mokri

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Fish & Cat. 2013 Iran. Directed by Shahram Mokri. Courtesy of Iranian Independent

Fish & Cat. 2013. Iran. Directed by Shahram Mokri. With Babak Karimi, Shadi Karamroudi. DCP. In Persian; English subtitles. 134 min.

An opening title card references the shutdown of a cannibal restaurant in 1998. What follows is a creepy trip of no return—rendered in one uninterrupted shot by cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari. Trapping the characters and the audience in a single take with no chance to escape, the hallucinatory nightmare is sustained over more than two hours with a constant sense of déjà vu and menace. This tour de force of form and storytelling is one of the most daring experimentations from Iran in recent memory.

This film accompanies The Eye of Iran: Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari.

Past events

Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 4:00 p.m.

Discussion with Mahmoud Kalari

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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