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Giulio Squillacciotti, Insom Camilla

Archipelago

Documentaire | hdv | couleur | 61:0 | Italie, Iran | 2017

Archipelago is a journey through ancient myths, exorcism rituals, sounds and spirits. In the south of Iran, on a group of islands of the Persian Gulf, humans and spirits coexist since centuries. The culture and traditions of these Islands are the result of the encounters between the African Diaspora, the Arab Countries and Iran, generating a unique system of syncretic beliefs. Spirits of different heritages and origins, called Bād, the Persian word for wind, moving through the air, take possession of the islanders bodies and can only be quieted through a music ceremony called the Zār Ritual. Thanks to an unprecedented access given to foreign film makers, the Film showcases stories and landscapes of the islanders daily life within the frame of the Rituals, giving, through pounding drum rhythms and wailing vocal chorus, a rare and unexpected glimpse of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, Italy 1982). Artist, Film maker and researcher lives and works in Milan (I) and Maastricht (NL). He studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome. He owns a MA in Visual Arts from the University of Architecture in Venice IUAV, where he studied Art, Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. His work is mainly oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re- shape in new contexts. His research merges together ction and historical facts. Using lm, documentary, sound and performance, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, religion and popular culture. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at, among the others, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou and Gayte Lyrique in Paris, the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and (D), the Manifesta 8 in Murcia (E), Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble (F), Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, the Beirut Art Centre in Lebanon, the New York Photo Festival, the Dumbo Video and Columbia University in New York City and in the Official Competition at the 33rd and 35th Torino Film Festival Camilla Insom (Rome, Italy 1983). Anthropologist lives and works in Rome, Italy and Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. After completing the MA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Rome Sapienza, she’s currently a Phd candidate in Iranian Studies at University of Naples “ L`Orientale ”. Focus of her research is the modi cation of the category of sacred in different contexts through the analysis of ritual practices and their changing. In 2013 she researched the funerary practices of the Zoroastrian Parsi community of Bombay. Since 2014 her studies revolve around the Islam of the Kurds in Sulaimaniyah and Sangaw, Iraqi Kurdistan Kasnazaniyya, with particular reference to the Kasnazaniyya Su Brotherhood. She is in charge of the Anthropological Studies for the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of “ Sapienza ” University of Rome, member of the Societas Iranologica Europea (SIE) and member of the International Institute of Kurdish Culture.