Eyelid 8: Another Leap Year

Eyelid is a screening program for Innovative films dedicated to Women’s Rights. After the screening, each session includes artist talks and panel discussion with the directors, artists and guests.

Film titles:

• Veronica & Chantur (The Netherlands, 2001)
• Charismatic Fates & Vanishing Dates (The Netherlands, 2006)
• A Composition in Blue, Red & Other Colors (The Netherlands, 2017)
• In the Gaze of Panoptes (Norway, 2016)
• There Was the Dream and There Was a Memory Connected with It (The Netherlands, 2015)
• 1978: The 231st Day (The Netherlands, 2012)
• A Leap Year That Started on a Friday (Germany, 2010)

By Sara Rajaei

Invited Artist: Sara Rajaei is an Iranian-Dutch visual artist and filmmaker. She holds a BA in visual arts and was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In her work, she studies the notion of time by reflecting on the absence of image, memory psychology, oral history, narrative techniques, and physical/psychological space. Her films have screened at de Appel Arts Center, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Hong Kong International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rencontres Internationales, Art Brussels and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Date, Place and Time:

20 September 2024 Trondheim Cinemateket, Kjøpmannsgata 44 (inside Olavshallen)

18:00 – 20:00 (free entrance & no tickets/booking)

Artist talk and panel discussion with Sara Rajaei and Setareh Samavi.