Good evening, geeks. A sleepy Big Eyes, here. Been a bit quiet this week, trying take care of a lot of things I needed to get in the real world. Checking in, seeing how y’all doing. I have a trailer with some nice foreign animation to share with you all, called “TEHRAN TABOO”.
In this film we get to peer into a way of life many of us folks in the states or the UK may not otherwise, and I’m always down for that. “Blending multiple narratives into a complex picture of contemporary life in Iran’s most populous city, TEHRAN TABOO follows a young woman in need of an operation to “restore” her virginity; a divorce judge (in the Islamic Revolutionary Court) who extorts favors from a prostitute; a pregnant woman desperate to work for a living so she may live independently; and young women (purportedly virgins) being sold to Dubai for large sums of money. The result is a complicated portrait of a social order in which women are at the bottom rung of a ladder built on religion, the law, and plain old misogyny.”
This all sounds so very interesting to me. It’s giving me kind of a “Crash” vibe. Check out the trailer:
I like the look and style. “TEHRAN TABOO” is animated via rotoscoping. According to Wikipedia: “Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced over the image. This projection equipment is referred to as a rotoscope, developed by Polish-American animator Max Fleischer. This device was eventually replaced by computers, but the process is still called rotoscoping.” Another movie you may be more familiar with that used a modern version of rotoscoping was “A Scanner Darkly”, starring Keanu Reeves, in 2006. I was seriously too young for that film when I watched it. I need to give it another go around.
“TEHRAN TABOO” is set to premier at New York’s Film Film Forum on Valentine’s Day, 2018! It also opens in San Francisco, CA, on March 2 (Roxie Theatre) and in Los Angeles, CA, on March 9 (at Laemmle’s Town Center 5 and Music Hall 3).
~Big Eyes
