A Moment of Innocence (12A)

This event has already taken place and ended on 25 Jul 2010

Moshen Makhmalbaf's metafilm layers time and reality; inter-mixing memory, fiction, real characters and amateur actors to restage a violent encounter from his own past when he stabbed one of the Shah's policemen.

Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Iran/France 1996 1h 18m Subtitled

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Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.