Her Bijî Granî

Q&A

As part of the Q&A series of the 10^th Norient Film Festival 2021, the director Georg Mürer and ethnomusicologist Martin Stokes met to talk about Mürer’s film Her Biji Granî (USA, Kurdistan, Türkiye 2020).

The Film «Her Bijî Granî» will be available for streaming on demand throughout all of 2021 via Vimeo.

The conversation is about Mürer’s inspiration and motivation to create a movie about the elektrobağlama-driven genre of granî and its role at Kurdish weddings in Southeastern Türkiye. The film explores the perspectives and creative agency of different performers alongside the geographic networks of communities they serve, while offering a vivid window onto weddings as youth scenes and defiant expressions of Kurdish identity.

Introduction and production: Christopher Blatter
Cut: MR. LU*

Trailer

This video is part of the Q&A program of the 10^thNorient Film Festival 2021. The talk was recorded on January 4, 2021, via Zoom.

Biography

Martin Stokes has been traveling around this part of the world and listening to its music since the early 1980s. He teaches at King’s College London. He is the author of «The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music» (Chicago 2010). Follow him on LinkedIn.

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Martin Stokes: «A Yearning for Coherence» (Norient)

Published on March 18, 2021

Last updated on June 27, 2023

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2021: Malam Berkah

Video Essay

by Gabber Modus Operandi

This episode of our 2021 video series is a dinner conversation by the electronic music duo Gabber Modus Operandi, taking place in Denpasar, Indonesia. They talk about Bali, toxic tourism, colonialism, and also some good news around the locals.

This video will be screened at Rewire Festival 2021. The video has thus been taken down temporarily and will be accessible on this page after the festival again.

The video is taken at Berkah Jaya, a site for emergency hawker food, made by their friend Putu Eka, who also shot this video. Like other thousands if not millions of residents in Bali, Eka lost his job during the pandemic because he depends on unhealthy forms of mega tourism.

A video by Putu Eka
Featuring Aditya Surya Taruna and M. Ikhsan Syahrul (Gabber Modus Operandi)

HOXXXYA by Gabber Modus Operandi

For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?

Biography

Gabber Modus Operandi is an accidental project founded by Kasimyn and Ican Harem. Born out of a shared obsession for all sorts of high-octane, fast-paced sounds, they explode an extensive range of influences into vibrant, outrageous productions. Follow them on SoundCloud, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or on Spotify.

Published on March 18, 2021

Last updated on April 10, 2024

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2021: Osa Ebrahim

Video Essay

by Kamran Heidari

This episode of our 2021 video series portrays the Iranian sorna player Ebrahim Salmanpor Qashqai. «I am the most famous Qashqai wedding sorna player in Fars province and no one has ever been better than me», he says while looking back on his life, his performances at Qashqai weddings, and the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to his people.

The Qashqai tribe is one of the great nomadic tribes from Southern Iran. The life of the Qashqai people is shaped by constant migration to reach either more tropical or colder climatic zones. In the meantime, their music and dance are inextricably linked to their lives.

Credits

A film by Kamran Heidari

Mahmoodreza Zarinchang, assistant director, was born in 1980 in shiraz, Iran. He is an experimental director with eight years of experience working alongside the executive teams of film making. Mahmoodreza is a civil engineer which is educating in cinema and filmmaking courses and he is inspired by Kamran Heidari and his Filmmaking style for two years. He made five short film as director, assistant director, production manager and likes to photography, imaging, and calligraphy. Follow him on Instagram.

Farshad Abbasi, editor, was born in 1991, in Shiraz, he has an MA in mechanical engineering. He started his cinematic practices when he was 20 years old. He made four short films, including Radio, Entropy, In Between and Sadi Carno. He has his performance as editor in documentary and cinematic works of producers such Kamran Heidari and other film makers. Follow him on Instagram.

For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?

Biography

Kamran Heidari was born in Gachsaran, near Shiraz, Iran, in 1977. He is a freelance documentary filmmaker and photographer, with an interest in street photography, graffiti, and ethno-music. His work focuses on film and photography about the people of Shiraz (Fars Province) and the South of Iran. «My Name Is Negahdar Jamali» and «I Make Westerns» (2012), his first feature length documentary was screened in many festivals around the world, among which Busan International Film Festival and Rotterdam. His latest work «Ali Agha» premiered at IDFA in 2017. «Ahle Hawa», his current project, would be his fifth feature length film. Follow him on Instagram, SoundCloud, or on his Website.

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Azin Feizabadi: «Ebram the Breeze» (Norient)

Published on February 26, 2021

Last updated on April 11, 2024

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