THE FABRIC
Germany 2021 | 13 Min. | engl. subtitled
Mon, 15-May-23 07:30 PM
Iman Behrouzi
Two sets of circumstances bound 367 students to their 25-storey university dorm rooms in Germany. The first being the lockdown from the worldwide COVID crisis. And the second, the renovations of their dorm rooms that the lockdown had brought to an unfinished abrupt halt. From the outside, their building might well be abandoned, except for a piece of fabric covering it to contain debris in place. From the inside, Iranian filmmaker Iman Behrouzi, as one of the 367, explores the different ways this piece of fabric with a little gap here, a little fold there, and a little lifting from the wind in another part, gives the students tiny glimpses into the world outside. What does a slice of a view mean when one has been cut off from the outside world?