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“You can see a bird in flight and watch to observe it, or feel that you are flying with it. That is contemplation, becoming the other.” Hafiz. Despite (or because of) its apparent calmness, contemplation is the state that most radically dissolves and liberates the self. Through contemplation, the other gradually seeps into us like gentle rain ... without realising it, we suddenly start to see ... the world is not outside us and nothing is lifeless ... images appear and disappear over the silence of that which has no name or form ... like the blinking of something that isn’t our eyes... perhaps then the inner teacher will appear intimately... you will recognise him because all that has withered blooms again ... then we will know that the sky can also be stone and feet can walk on clouds and ... But make sure you do not name him ... for he will vanish.

After a dream in which he lost his vision, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Shirvani sought to explore the role of sight in cinema and organized filmmaking workshops for blind women. In this episodic compilation, seven Iranian women armed with digital cameras create intensely personal stories about their passions, familial bonds, and daily challenges. Together, they present new ways of observing blindness. 2008, video, in Farsi with English subtitles, 116 minutes.

“6 versos i poca vergonya” ens submergeix al bany d'emocions que viuen tres joves del Delta de l'Ebre endinsant-se al costum més festiu dels seus avantpassats: la rondalla. Rafa dirigeix el somni de fer reviure aquest cant improvisat de les Terres de l'Ebre i Curto i Tolet busquen la rima i l'afinació. Aconseguiran superar el pas del temps i triomfar com a cantadors? Aquest documental desperta els sentits mentre immortalitza el vent de la improvització. Són les passes de tres joves que del poble han begut han conversat amb els vells agraint-los tot el rebut i convençuts del que han fet la vergonya l'han perdut

You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself ‘what used to be there?' You are only vaguely aware of the district's shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops. 10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown