October 12 – 14, 2024
“Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his friends. He desperately tries to act as a very democratic person, giving priority to his wife’s joy and pleasures. He is even willing to show that he would be happy if his wife marries one of his friends since he thinks the other one would be able to make her happier. But it seems that she’s notified that the matter of her happiness is absolutely not dependent on a “man”. Thus he sees that all his scientific beliefs are collapsed…”
What is mental life as opposed to actual life? Here in this movie we take a trip into the abyss of the psyche. A psychoanalytic journey when time and space go beyond temporality and topology. This is a cinematic discourse that does not shy away from the difficult questions of political society. In a merging of logos and physis, this movie is a radical departure form normative approach to the element of the mind. It certainly gives us the opportunity to glimpse into the irrational as it may easily emerge from the making of knowledge as a commodity. Is life limited to a short elevator ride, or it is the very shortness of life itself that takes us on a ride? To experience the labyrinth of mind is an experience depicted in this cinematic art form with tasteful aesthetics. It is here that you come to see the invisible.
