In Transit
2023 | 25 min | Documentary
The collaborative project by Wim Wenders "A Sense of Place": A dreamy and enigmatic film about facing your own shadow through a camera.
Azin Feizabadi
DirectorBorn in Tehran in 1982, artist and filmmaker Azin Feizabadi lives and works in Berlin. He completed his artistic education at institutions including the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Berlin University of the Arts. His feature-length debut, "UCHRONIA", premiered at the 69th Berlinale in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section in 2019. Further cinematic works by the Villa Romana fellow include "CRYPTOMNESIA" (2021). Feizabadi's multi-layered work operates at the intersection of film, performance, and visual arts.
Films
A Sense of Place – Interview with Wim Wenders
By Azin Feizabadi, Pooya Abbasian
2023 | 21 min | Documentary
Interview with Wim Wenders about his vision, the significance of place in cinema, and the response to this project among Iranian filmmakers.
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