Censorship – (Extended)

Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Tehran
Production Date | 2020-02-01


In each society, people have their own different ways to censor themselves and others as well. Governments, organizations, associations and finally self-censorship, countless social censorship moves from politics to economics, from news to the arts. Who the individual or individuals are accountable for forcing this oversight? On what premise they judge? What freedoms they need to do as such?

Following the Iranian revolution, limitation and censorship have been imposed in a great variety of ways that after 40 years it has significantly infected people with hallucinations and self-censorship and has consequently left a disastrous effect on both the society and the individuals live in. This sad reality has tragically brought about individuals having parted character making them incapable to foster a legitimate comprehension of their current circumstance.

This very archive is a narrative of banned parties in Tehran and people aged 25-45 who did not let me reveal their identities.