Subtotals

Synopsis

Do you keep a record of your gray hair? The number of houses you have owned or rented? The number of kisses you have exchanged? The number of times you've flown in your dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers. Majmouan is a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn't hand you out any bills. Mohammadreza Farzad's Majmouan (Subtotals) is an essay film inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel "Autoportrait" by Édouard Levé, and wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people.

Director Biography

Mohammadreza Farzad (1978) was born in Iran, Teheran. He started his career as a poet and literary translator. His career as a documentary filmmaker started with "Into Thin Air" ( 2011) and "Blames and Flames" (2012). Both short films premiered at Berlinale Forum Expanded and screened, among others, at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Moscow IFF, CPH:DOX, Hot Springs IFF, Oberhausen, Ji.hlava IDFF, Jeonju IFF, Molodist, and Walker Art Centre.