The Day I Disappeared is a film essay based on the personal story of the filmmaker, who fled from Iran and travelled through what was a completely new and unknown world for her: Europe. It is also an effort to shed light on an internal process of alienation, an individualisation of the term 'refugee' or 'asylum-seeker'. The unconventional narrative uses the patterns of Persian poetry, with visual metaphors and rhymes and rhythms between the scenes. A lot of the material is found 16mm and 8mm footage that mirrors the director's memories of her own trip through Europe more than twenty years ago. The images of the main character’s dance also reflect on the alienation of the individual. The combination of all these creative approaches evokes a special world between reality and fairytale.
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Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi Director
First release November 14, 2011 · Produced in Iran, Netherlands · Original title Roozl Ke Man Napadid Shodam
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Iran · Netherlands
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Original title
Roozl Ke Man Napadid Shodam
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
Philippines · November 14, 2011
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