SHOJA AZARI Born in 1958, lives in New York. Since 1998 close collaboration with Shirin Neshat, that successfully began with the installation Turbulent which won the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale. Followed by the Silver Lion for the movie Women Without Men eleven years later. Exhibitions at the Haus der Kulturen, Berlin; ICA London; Centre Pompidou, Paris et al.
Selected Films: King of Black (2013), Women Without Men (2009), Window (2006), K (2002)
SIMPLE LITTLE LIVES
(USA 2016, 2K, 80’39’’, English)
Cast: Natalie Hall, Brock Harris, Kieran Campion, Christopher Sears, Rosie Benton, Paul Pilcz, JJ Condon, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Ashley Trawinski, Dylan Perlman
WORLD PREMIERE
As they do every year, nine friends meet to grill a pig over an open fire at night – a generations-old tradition diligently upheld in the rural Adirondacks in New York. This time, however, a mysterious uninvited stranger from the city also comes. He acts as a catalyst who – as the evening advances and the alcohol intake increases – exposes the simmering tensions in the group. An open conflict develops. This work is a parable about social differences, frustration and the propensity to violence in the young white generation in the USA.