VHS Diaries • Directed by Niyaz Saghari • 2020
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During the period when video was banned in Iran, Niyaz Saghari preserved her defiant enthusiasm for cinema by collating diaries. By incorporating her personal VHS film archive, hand-written diaries, and interviews with avid cinephiles and underground video dealers into her film, she passionately, and with exquisite nuance, frames the love for cinema as a compromising reality.
Saghari’s film is an homage to the history of cinema, foreign film distribution in Iran during the 80’s, and an entire generation’s immense fondness of cinema, which they used to break free from the restrictions of the time. Despite being a relatively simple story, it is exquisitely told. Saghari captures haunting, nostalgic moments and intensely emotional experiences that will surely remain in any viewer’s mind for a very long time.
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