The Sacred, the Absurd

Directed by: Ghasem Ebrahimian
Length: 22 minutes
Category: Short
Country: Iran
Year of production: 2005
Screened in: 2013 Festival Cinema Invisible

Synopsis

The last day in the life of Sadegh Hedayat, an Iranian writer in Paris, who committed suicide in 1951. Projected on three screens that resemble the walls of a room, and also the parallel narratives of Hedayat’s mind, the film recounts through imagery Hedayat’s last day and night.