Bani Khoshnoudi was born in Tehran. She studied film at the University of Texas in Austin, where she made experimental shorts and documentaries. Today she lives in Paris where she has made both documentaries and short films, as well as creating a network with filmmakers in Tehran. She is currently working on a feature film project that takes place in Iran.
It was a very moving work and provoked some interesting discussion about ideas of exile and how certain images are often used to evoke particlar emotions, in this case loss and fear. It brought to my mind another video work that I loved for its visual richness entitled WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) by Isaac Julien
The aesthetic was completely different. Julien's was large and glorious in colour whilst Khoshnoudi's had a very tight cramped feel, with muted colours and minimal sound. But it is this very difference that becomes interesting to piursue as we move forward with our collaborative outcome.
