Azar Saiyar
Azar Saiyar (b.1979) is a Helsinki-based media artist and filmmaker who often uses archive materials as the basis for her works. Her films study and challenge these found images, texts and sounds, by looking closely, listening and going deep into details.
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Kerro minulle
Tell me
2019
A narrator asks: “Do you know this bird?”. The film quotes both public and private archival images in which birds are in the centre – birds as individual living beings but also as creatures habiting the world and stories created by humans.
Duration 8 min
Sound design by Johannes Vartola
Narrator Anni Tani
Original curating Mariliis Rebane
Cinematography Joonas Kiviharju & Azar Saiyar
Location: 50's rowhouse, apartment 6
