On Bani Khoshnoudi's The Vanishing Point (2025) and Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani's Past Future Continuous (2025), and on homes and homelands
Fantastic analysis of how these films invert surveillance from oppression into tenderness. The 'present-absent' concept really nails somethng I've been thinking about since moving away from my family,how screens give us access but never closeness. What's intriguing is how Khoshnoudi and the others turn the regime's own panopticon logic back on itself, not to control but to care across imposed distance. I dunno if that fully resolves the ethical tension but it's a compelling reframing.
Fantastic analysis of how these films invert surveillance from oppression into tenderness. The 'present-absent' concept really nails somethng I've been thinking about since moving away from my family,how screens give us access but never closeness. What's intriguing is how Khoshnoudi and the others turn the regime's own panopticon logic back on itself, not to control but to care across imposed distance. I dunno if that fully resolves the ethical tension but it's a compelling reframing.
thats for reading! yes thats totally right about inverting the state's logic through the film form.