Completed - ENGLISH, PERSIAN - Documentary - 80 minutes
A unique journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers which becomes a love affair on film.
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI Writer(s) : Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI Cast : Mark COUSINS, Mania AKBARI Producer(s) : Don BOYD (HiBROW)
Life May Be is a digital film which could have been made in the 18th Century. Like Pamela, Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, it is an exchange of letters - between Mania Akbari and Mark Cousins. Their themes are wide ranging - filmmaking, exile, Iran, the Holocaust and the human body. The film's form starts with extreme minimalism, but then opens up and shape shifts. We see ideas evolving, but style, too, as each filmmaker climbs upon the other's shoulders.
Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM, IRAN
Edinburgh 2014Karlovy Vary 2014Torino FF 2014