Programme One

At the time of writing, this film does not yet exist; its very absence is the enigma it advances. Conceived as an event rather than a prefabricated object, it will be realised within an intensive two-day masterclass co-hosted by EFS Film School and the Tehran Contemporary Sounds (TCS) Festival. Participants will conceive, intuit, and compose images and sounds through a lyrical, non-scripted practice—improvising, devising, and assembling a collaborative work that will make its first appearance in this screening.
In this sense, the premiere and the workshop are inseparable: the film arrives not as a finished artefact but as the trace of its own becoming—process become form. Eschewing prior narrative scaffolding and informational delivery, it posits that cinema can be constituted in the present, unsettling, subverting, and detonating habituated ways of
seeing. All participating filmmakers will be present for an extended discussion and Q&A, opening the work to the same risk, scrutiny, and collective thought that animated its creation within this programme.

Total running time: TBC.