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Mediatheque
Tao Hui 陶輝
The Dusk of Teheran 德黑蘭的黃昏
2014
This short, intimate video focuses on an Iranian woman in the back seat of a car, wearing a white wedding dress and veil. As the car moves through the busy evening streets of Tehran, she converses with the unseen driver, who congratulates her on a recent performance. She thanks the driver for his praise but proceeds to ruminate on her desire for marriage and a family, which her career as a singer and entertainer has prevented. Although she is adored by her fans, she believes her deepest desires will remain unfulfilled. As the audio track is overtaken by music from the radio—Homayoun Shajarian’s mournful ‘Chera Rafti’— the woman smokes a cigarette and gazes pensively out the car window.
The woman’s words are taken from real-life remarks by the Cantopop superstar Anita Mui at her last concert before her death in 2003. By transposing the Hong Kong star’s poignant words into a new geographic and cultural context, Tao Hui sheds light on the yearning for love as a universal experience, but also highlights the particular struggles women face in locales where their dress, movement, and work are all highly restricted.
The woman’s words are taken from real-life remarks by the Cantopop superstar Anita Mui at her last concert before her death in 2003. By transposing the Hong Kong star’s poignant words into a new geographic and cultural context, Tao Hui sheds light on the yearning for love as a universal experience, but also highlights the particular struggles women face in locales where their dress, movement, and work are all highly restricted.
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