Abbas Kiarostami travels to Gilan three days after the earthquake of 1990.
Mohammad Rezaei Kalantari travels to Tabriz three days after the earthquake of 2012.
One reaction takes place by two people in different time and different place. In a circumstance in which image representation has been doubted, image can only be image. Then the reaction is nothing but image representation after a disaster. Here photo represents a performing of a scene. Presence of camera, photographer, people, and balloons are recorded. Photos and videos represent the disaster. The process of photo shooting turns into a project to draw the attentions from the black and white frame of death to “Life and Nothing More”.
Putting the pictures and the movies together, besides referring to picture as the only accessible level after the disaster, represents the situation of human in the time of downfall and the arrival of the process of reconstruction. Looking at each picture is like putting a picture in the chain of other ones.
Assistant: Mahour Vajdi
Special Thanks to Dadbeh Baghery
