A casual discussion over at NYC Fantastic....

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Hello, just sat down for a relaxed convo over at NYC Fantastic Podcast. Check it out below -

Description from YouTube pulled from the video reads as:

We had a low key, chill, but illuminating discussion with filmmaker, actor, musician Amir Motlagh on Sunday 5/10/20. Many topics were discussed - including living in the Covid19 era, layers being removed from society, his 20 films, and music work. For all things Amir Motlagh visit his website - https://www.amirmotlagh.com/.

From his website - "Amir Motlagh has written and directed 20 titles (+ -), including the feature films THREE WORLDS, MAN, WHALE & RAINBOW SEASON (also a full length LP). He is the recipient of multiple awards (art is not about competition) and is a cross-media artist who makes music under the moniker, Mirs as singer, songwriter and record producer. He frequently collaborates with other artists. He is the founder of ANIMALS. Partial List of Festival Screenings & Awards include - deadCenter Film Festival, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival, 24fps International Short Film Festival, CiCFF, Iranian Film Festival, DanceswithFilms, Vancouver Asian American Festival, Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival, DeepEllum Film Festilval, Silverlake Film Festival, Microcinema International Independent Exposure Series, Chicago Asian American Film Festival, Taos Shortz Film Festival, Hells Half Mile Film & Music Festival."

Read the rest of the biography here - https://www.amirmotlagh.com/biography Check out https://www.amirmotlagh.com/ for updates on new projects.

Visit NYC Fantastic blog for other interviews by Sujewa Ekanayake - http://nycfantastic.com/blog/

love in the great uncertainty

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“mirs experiences love loss during the beginning of a great crisis period.”

written & directed by Amir Motlagh
produced by Charles Borg, ANIMALS, Amir Motlagh
music by Mirs

ep available only through Bandcamp:
https://mirs.bandcamp.com/album/love-in-the-great-uncertainty
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tracklist as they appear:

soma (demo2044)
minima (demo2020)
namu (demo1984)

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below are links to Youtube & Vimeo. under that is the link to the EP.

Wishing you health in 2020 and a message to support your artists.

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Not much to add to the current discussions except to wish you & your family health and well-being.

As most artists are currently not working & client load is zero, please consider buying directly from artists if possible.

Some sites to consider for more direct purchasing include Vimeo On Demand for films, Bandcamp for music, and of course, personal websites, yours included.

Wishing you well and talk soon.

As a further note, if for example, I cannot process an order immediately (photo or art print), I will get it to you as soon as possible, and appreciate the patience.

Wishing you well, and enjoy some photos from a new series below (any avail to purchase, just let me know. haven’t yet decided the print number or size yet, but they will be limited prints).

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Cooking with my Baba Jaan

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Hi friends, this is a personal post. My father, Yousef has been dreaming of opening a restaurant for quite some time. We decided that another way to fulfill this dream is to share his kitchen with the world, and so, he made a cooking show on Youtube. It’s Persian centric, it’s wholesome, it’s relaxed, it’s a bit like mediation.

Please consider subscribing, liking and commenting, and of course, please pass it forward! Click the image below.

Love ya’ll
AM

A spotlight on MAN - Kicking the Seat

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A funny thing happened a few nights ago that succinctly describes the plight of independent filmmaking and the practice of sending screeners. Let me preface that with this; one of the most rewarding aspects of filmmaking in the true independent sense is the process of self-actualization, a partially controllable condition. Now, the uncontrollable condition (everything after the creation) is that the farther a vision strews from established norms, the harder it becomes to attract a certain level of attention. This is woven into the classic gatekeeper paradigm.

Ok, back to the first sentence. Nearly two years ago, Chicago Film Critics Association member Ian Simmons was handed a screener to the film MAN (screening at Chicago at the time) by a colleague, he watched the first ten minutes of it and shut the screener off prematurely, writing it off as not his thing. Fast forward to a couple of nights ago, as he confessed this earlier sin on his “Kicking the Seat Podcast”, and now proclaimed that the film had, “blown his mind” while dedicating an entire episode talking about the film. A massive change of opinion nearly two years in the making, done in a transparent, respectable & honest way.

This is the reality of artmaking and it is unavoidable when the access & context is not in place. One cannot demand that people pay attention to your work. But it is always the artist's responsibility to tell what needs to be told, in the only way that one can.

Time takes care of the rest, not in the sense that people will come around, but in the sense that ultimately, it never really mattered in the first place.

Here is the link to the Kicking The Seat Podcast in which MAN is given a positive, newly minted spotlight in the eyes of one critic.

And below, a link to watch on our preferred platform.


l i t t l e m o n s t e r s l i t t l e f r i e n d s - limited prints & original avail

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“l i t t l e m o n s t e r s l i t t l e f r i e n d s”
Print run - Edition of 44 in various solid hues. (13”x19” - high-quality archival paper)
Original in black & white ink.
Message for info/purchasing.

l i t t l e m o n s t e r s l i t t l e f r i e n d s - 2019

l i t t l e m o n s t e r s l i t t l e f r i e n d s - 2019

CINIMA and Mirs - Sleepless - improv sessions

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My friend Nima Rezai just launched a new project called CINIMA. We just released a collaborative single titled Rain (see post below) between his project and my ongoing music project Mirs.

We had previously worked together on CANYON (2016), though I had never performed that album live. Below is a chopped & screwed improv version of the track Sleepless from CANYON, filmed at Nima’s studio.