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Compilation NL FR EN
31.01.2013
Hossein Sabzian
Zero de conduite 1996

(1) Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

I let my love for cinema destroy my life... but I'm still always
eager to see a good film.

It's not important who made it.

Just seeing it is the important thing.

The cinema lost me my job.

It robbed me of my life... my social identity.

But even now, just one good film and I eagerly turn back to cinema.

(2) Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

If I had the money, I might, for example, like Peter Falk, buy kites
so I wouldn't grow up.

The cinema.

Whenever I see a film, I dissolve myself in it... to such an extent
that I reach the bottom.

I fade out and perhaps... I get lost in it.

And this has played an essential role in my life.

(3) Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

Cinema is important to me. It's like a prism.

A good film... is part of my life.

With every good film I see, I feel reborn.

It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation.

I identify with the director.

I identify with the actors.

I feel attuned and in harmony with the atmosphere of the film.

I feel as if it's my story.

That's how films carry me away.

That's why they've become my obsession.

(4) Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

If I didn't have to live in society, I'd seek shelter in the
mountains and live all by myself.

If I didn't have to go on living, and were courageous enough, I'd
have liked to be hanged from the beams of cinema.

If I had the courage to protest... I would use filmmaking as a tool
to fight all injustice.

(5) Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

Hossein Sabzian in Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud Chokrollahi & Moslem
Mansouri, 1996).

 

Images (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) from Close-Up Long Shot (Mamhoud
Chokrollahi & Moslem Mansouri, 1996)

  * Hossein Sabzian Close-Up Long Shot Mamhoud Chokrollahi Moslem
    Mansouri

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