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Negative Rolls to Send Home
A Film by Soha Parsa, Romania, 2024
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Original Title
Negative Rolls to Send Home
Country of Production
Romania
Year of Production
2024
Running Time
03'15''
Language
Persian
Synopsys
At some point, I realized our eyes had become accustomed to the censorship of skin and hair in magazines and books. We began to believe it was wrong to see or show anything natural from the human body. This led to feelings of fear and guilt about our own bodies.
Name
Soha Parsa
Country
Romania
Biography
Soha Parsa is an Iranian filmmaker, writer, and painter based in Bucharest. She began her journey with a film editing course she took during the pandemic in her home country, which led to experimental works that earned her admission to the Bucharest National University of Arts in Romania. Her graduation film, a documentary essay titled 'Cheshm,' was exhibited in Bucharest until July 10th. She focuses on social and cultural themes and their impacts on identity in her films.
Filmography
Cheshm - 2024
Negative Rolls to Send Home - 2024
Pawn to D8 - 2023
1-Year-Old Cucumber - 2023
Capacity - 2023
Pendulum - 2023
The Background - 2023
Crows Survive - 2022
A Woman's Image - 2021
Insomnia - 2021
Director's notes
I remember a long time ago when a fun little entertainment for me and some other classmates was to try using nail polish remover or something similar to remove marker stains from our English books or magazines. I don't know what we were looking for, but each time we wiped the stains, we saw nothing but a normal arm or leg of a woman wearing a T-shirt or a skirt. At some point, we stopped wiping those stains off. That would be around the time we were convinced we were supposed to cover our hair and skin for the sake of other eyes. Personally, I had a constant fear of the consequences of showing even a few hair strands under my scarf; because I believed that the fires of hell would await me, or that I would be hung from those few hairs in hell. I was always conscious and aware of my skin and hair, and felt like there was something wrong with me, or my friends, or every other woman I saw.
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