Black Tape: A Tehran Diary, the Videotape Fariborz Kambari Found in the Garbage

2002·Iran·83 min.
Black Tape: A Tehran Diary, the Videotape Fariborz Kambari Found in the Garbage
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Banned in Iran this experimental film uses fictionalized, grainy, home video footage to tell the story of the abusive relationship between a successful middle aged Iranian businessman and his 18 year old wife, Goli. She has just received a camcorder as his birthday present and the entire story is told from the view of this camcorder. Goli has lived with him and been his sex slave since he took her captive as a nine year old from her family in the Kurdish rebellion. Now she is pregnant, but as she starts to talk back to him and he discovers that she has learned English and started to read, he again is making her more and more a prisoner in his home.

ScreenwriterFariborz Kamkari
CinematographyTouraj Aslani
Original titleRavayate Makhdush