Writing on the City

Walls are critical sites. They rise within cities and carry faces, names, slogans, poems, and anthems. We read the walls to discover the dreams of the city’s inhabitants – the strong and the weak. Dissatisfied people come out of their hiding places in the darkness to write something on a wall. Walls remind us of constitutional and Islamic revolutions, reflecting the passion of freedom, or the suppressed anger of prisons. A documentary on the evolution of graffiti in Tehran that proves that no wall in the urban landscape is blank, even if totally white: there are traces of markers and sprays, but also the scars of contemporary history
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Keywan Karimi
Cinematography: Arastoo Madahi Givi
Editing: Farahnaz Sharifi
Sound: Bamdad Afshar
Music: Bamdad Afshar
Producers: Keywan Karimi
Narration: Amin Bozorgian, Farahnaz Sharifi, Salman Razavi
Format: Color-B&W
Production Country: Iran
Production Year: 2015
Duration: 60
Contact: Keywan Karimi / Key Film Keywankarimi1985@gmail.com
AWARDS
Special Mention – Int’l Documentary FF of Navarra Punto de Vista 2016, Spain

Keywan Karimi

Filmography

2012 Marze Shekaste | Broken Border (short)
2015 Neveshtan Bar Shahr | Writing on the City
2016 Zan va shohar Karegar | The Adventure of the Married Couple (short fiction)