Schedule - 5- Performing Alternatives
Elixir
(Visualisto Group)
Installation Designer: Ali Kazemi
Advisor: Saeed Behnam, Arman Moghaddam
Software Development and Media Designer: Arman Moghaddam
Concept, Material Process and Stage: Mona Pourmohammadi, Ali Kazemi
Assistant: Meysam Rezaeenia
LED Manufacturer and Operator: Kamyar Ansari
Photographer and Teaser: Visualisto Group
Duration: Unlimited
City: Karaj
About the Performance: Elixir’s scenery revolves around the concept of impact in a lifespan. In this scenery, the impact of the participant on the surrounding objects and his range of attention toward the lifespan get accentuated. Likewise, the mutual impact of object on man and man on object is achieved through the arrangement of materials in terms of visual form, unnatural sounds etc.
Ali Kazemi: B. 1986, Karaj. BA in acting and MA in directing, Tehran University of Art. Idea developer, designer and director of the cartoon “Point Zero” and the animated series “For One Person”. Participant and performer at the From Test to Image Workshop. Participant and performer at the “Action” video designing workshop. Participant in more than ten national and international workshops.
The Joint Committee
Naghareh Khaneh Artistic-Cultural Group
Writer, Designer and Director: Milad Jabbari Molana
Cast: Ahdieh Asghari, Farahnaz Izadpanah, Alireza Behjati, Davoud Beigi, Mahshad Bahraminejad, Mehran Pourmehdi, Mohammad Javadi, Arghavan Hamedi, Atefeh Haghshenas, Hanieh Rahimi, Mehran Solgi, Hedieh Sheikhan, Sajjad Safaee, Hamidreza Tayefeh, Zarrin Abbaspour, Mohammad Javad Asgari, Mehryar Eidi, Farshad Ghareh Daghi Koloucheh, Mahmoud Kameshgaran, Roya Karimi, Majid Kouhi, Mostafa Goli, Hossein Mahmoudvand, Mehdi Moeenfar, Asghar Najafpour, Mohammad Norouzi, Alireza Hashemzadeh, Nazanin Harati
Assistant Director: Seyed Hamed Ghoreishi
Advisor Director: Mohammad Yousefi, Mohammad Jabbari Molana
Production Manager: Mohammad Yousefi
Lighting Designer and Operator: Sohrab Khanzadeh
Script Supervisors: Shahnaz Nouri, Azar Daryani
Executive representative and Public Relations: Mohammad Lahak
Media and Ad Consultant: Mohammad Lahak
Poster and Brochure Designer: Sohrab Khanzadeh
Teaser: Sohrab Khanzadeh, Mehrdad Mogharrab
Photographer: Sohrab Khanzadeh, Rojan Mollanejad
Programmer: Sahar Ajir
Composer: Bardia Yousefi
Make-up: Shakiba Hemmatian
Make-up Assistants: Vahid Nouri, Mostafa Afshari
Musicians: Sahar Ajir, Mohammad Yousefi
Costume and Archive: Sara Yousefi
Tailor: Nayeb Jabbari
Media Affairs: Milad Jabbari Molana
Logistic Manager and Stage Affairs: Mehdi Rezaee
Writing Assistant: Seyed Hamed Ghoreishi
Musicians: Arghavan Hamed
Duration: 70 min.
City: Tehran
Synopsis: Hectic days for the Joint Committee after the assassination of General Zandipour; days full of questions; and questions which have remained unanswered even up to now…
Milad Jabbari Mowlana: B. 1986, Tehran. MA in cinema directing. Director of the plays: “The Midway Traveler”, “Nail or Screw: That’s the Question”, “You Were Not to See”, “Silence It’s 10 Years after Hijra”, “Put Your Ears on the Ground”, “A Time for Being Woman”, “If I Were with You” etc. Writer of the plays: “Silence”, “Habib”, “A Father”, “Naheleh”, “Time in the Prison of the Palace” etc. Actor of the plays: “The Sun of the Caravan”, “The Miserable”, “The Hawthorn Garden”, “The Unaccounted Lady” and “The Sherriff”. Director of the short films: “Ms Masoumeh”, “The Companion” and “The Belt”. Director of the documentary films: “The Calluses of the City”, “The Return of Amir Ali’s Father”, “Richter by Richter” and “The Travelers of the Far Land”.
The Sound
(Garastan Group)
Writer, Director and Actor: Alireza Izadi
Advisors Director: Pouneh Rezaee, Reza Shabani
Assistant Director: Fatemeh Ahmadi
Stage Designer: Mohammad Hosseinalipour
Duration: 60 min.
City: Tehran
Synopsis: A villager hears a sound at midnight but sees no one around. Apparently, no one else has heard the sound. The first few nights, the man looks for the source of the sound but finds nothing. He goes to the doctor as he thinks he might be suffering from a mental disorder.
Alireza Izadi: B. 1975, Tehran. Graduate of Anahita Academy and Beh Andish Cinema Institute. Writer of the plays: “A Body under the House”, “The Open Wind”, “Running a Show”, “The Announcement”, “Blindness” etc. Writer and director of the short films: “The Conical Hat”, “Side Pools”, “Get by Six”, “The Monster’s Fang” etc.
The Corridor
(Sasat Group)
Concept and Directors: Hossein Maleki, Vahid Rahjooy
Performers: Hossein Maleki, Vahid Rahjooy, Vahid Jahanmiri Nejad
Contributors: HIV Positive Club Members and Medical staff of Imam Khomeini Hospital
Duration: Unlimited
City: Tehran
About the Performance: The Corridor is an interactive performance in which the audience- actors are patients suffering from HIV and the medical staff of Imam Khomeini Hospital, the biggest and the main center in Tehran that gives services to HIV-positive patients. This performance gives the HIV-positive patients an opportunity to tell about stigma and discrimination attached to them and their conditions.
Hossein Maleki: B. 1991, Tehran. BSc in industrial engineering and MA in dramatic literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. Writer and director of the plays: “Border Guards” and “Monkey”. Writer of the plays: “Left” and “Right”.
Vahid Rahjoui: B. 1991, Tehran. BA in theatre directing, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tehran. Writer and director of the plays: “Border Guards” and “Monkey”. Writer of the plays: “Left” and “Right”.