The First Movie
About children in a Kurdish Iraqi village making films.
I gave the kids these cameras and no tuition, no rules – handing over the means of production – and asked them to shoot whatever they wanted
The bed where I slept. Woke up to find (killer) scorpions.
By now one of my favourite films was Mohamed Ali Talebi’s Iranian movie The Boot, about a kid’s red boot, so I brought one everywhere.
Mohammad filmed a boy playing in the mud and improvised a poetic voice-over.
We projected the footage the kids shot on bed sheets in their village.