a public event
Tiny Snowflakes (Danehaye rize barf)
Directed by Ali Reza Amini (2003, Iran)
Friday, March 11, 2005
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
UCLA
James Bridges Theatre
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
The two scruffy caretakers at a remote, ramshackle mine have nothing but each other and a monotonous routine. Their boredom is broken by the occasional arrival of groups of miners who work for a few weeks and leave—until one day the two spot a teacher on her way to and from school on a neighboring road. The men's fevered attempts to catch a daily glimpse of this far-off figure give their lives hope even as it produces friction among them. Out of these minimal elements, Ali Reza Amini (director of Letters in the Wind, presented last year) fashions a hypnotic cinematic experience. With his second film, Amini has already developed a unique style, made up of silence, visual repetition, the sudden, startling eruption of arresting images, and echoes of Tarr and Tarkovsky
Producer: Ali Reza Amini. Screenwriter: Ali Reza Amini. Cinematographer: Toraj Aslani. Editor: Ali Reza Amini. Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Majid Babrami. 35mm, 75 min.
Cost: In-person $7, students & seniors $5, www.cinema.ucla.edu $8
For more information please contact
Steve Joudi
Tel: 310-825-1455
joudisa@international.ucla.edu
www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
Sponsor(s): UCLA Film and Television Archive, The Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin Foundation
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