Book Launch Blind, ins Auge

The book is based on images, videos, and experiences from the protests in Iran in 2022 and 2023. Many of these images were captured by people on the ground and shared via social media. They depict violence, resistance, and the attempt to become visible.

Blind, ins Auge brings together different perspectives. The focus is on questions of seeing and not seeing, of proximity and distance, as well as of violence, resistance, and memory.

The publication is intended as a critical examination of the political dimension of images. It explores how images function, how they are interpreted, and where their limits lie. Film is not presented as a neutral medium, but as a practice that intervenes, makes visible, and challenges.

For the publication, artists and authors were invited to develop their own perspectives on the topic:

Kianoush Akhbari, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Aylin Kuryel, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Florian Wüst, and Fırat Yücel.

Mehrad Sepahnia (1986, Tehran) is a filmmaker who explores the relationship between politics, narrative, image and sound in his work, with the questioning how cinema can create spaces for rethinking, and exploring the boundaries between reality and fiction. He starts in Iran with a no budget film and takes a hybrid approach to filmmaking that challenges conventional perspectives and invites viewers to engage with content and form by perceiving and feeling them.

Atefeh Kheirabadi (1990, Tehran) is a filmmaker. Her artistic practice moves between film, participatory processes of filmmaking, and political image criticism. Her works are often created in collective processes and combine documentary, essayistic, and fictional forms. She developes projects that deal with exile, resistance, body politics, and the role of the image in times of political violence.