MARYAM RAZ
FILMMAKER/SCREENWRITER
SOLO (2007) 06':51''
A short film about a young music student, just tuning his cello. The film is inspired by the real rehearsal location of music students in University of Tehran: an isolated corridor-like space from both sides blocked by rows of lockers. Music students would mostly rehears below the stairs, facing a mere white wall, on the dead end of this presumed shelter.
The represented ambient in Solo reflects the contradictory fact that although in Iranian universities one can learn the theory of music, they face lots of difficualties to play their music to the public. In Iran, most geners of music are banned to play in public.
Director, Screenwriter, Editor: Maryam Raz
Director of Photography: Davood Ashrafi - Sound Operator: Hossein Sedghi - Cast: Mahyar Tahmasbi - Music: Mahyar Tahmasbi
Produced by: Davood Ashrafi, Reza Hosseini