program 2026
Wednesday, 01 April 7-9 pm.
Vessel x Cinema Politica presents
‘Razeh-del راز دل’ by Maryam Tafakory.
About the film
In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film. Using citations and image intervention, Razeh-del journeys through parallel histories of war on images of women.
Local speaker
Born in 1998, Yasamin Khadembashi is an Iranian-Australian multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Australia, living and working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia). Working across sculptural painting, installation, textiles, and mixed media, her practice interrogates the political construction of the body through diasporic, queer feminist, and anti-colonial frameworks. Born to Iranian immigrant parents, Khadembashi draws upon cultural inheritance alongside histories of resistance to examine the systems that regulate visibility, autonomy, and belonging.
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