Fellow Citizen
- measured
- intimate
Neutral, measured, gentle documentary / traffic, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross the road blocks set up at various intersections leading to the restricted zone.
Our read · Fellow Citizen (1983) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded documentary · traffic · tehran entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Fellow Citizen
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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