Pensée Sauvage Films is an independent production company making work in Iran, France, the United States and other extended horizons. Neither culturally based, nor nationally anchored, the work is motivated by an exploration of the visual medium of film and the blurred line between documentary and fiction. The films we want to make are ones that push boundaries and economies, that know no borders, and that seek the complexity in life and thought.

 

“Insofar as history aspires to meaning, it is doomed to select regions, periods, groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out as discontinuous figures, against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop... It inevitably remains partial - that is, incomplete.”

- Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind

NEWS:


French press applauds "A People in the Shadows", feature documentary on Tehran:

“ A beautiful documentary approach that allows us to perceive all the possibilities of a pained society.” (Critikat.com)

“ Bani Khoshnoudi proposes another voyage, one of an almost hypnotic banality… The film shows us an innumerable number of links in a city that is not, in any case, the obscure capital that we would like it to be.” (Libération)

“ For A People in the Shadows, an impressionistic and contrasting portrait of the Iranian capital, she submerged herself in the city… From this megalopolis of 14 million people… she gives us a fragmented vision, respectful of its diversity. Behind images that are traditionally propagated by the regime…little by little, she brings another reality to the surface… Many gaps that open up in a wall of prohibitions of all sorts." (Télérama)

“ A People in the Shadows… with its explicit title, goes against the clichés that the media propagates about Iranian society… Bani Khoshnoudi brings out multiple signs of modernity that coexist with figures that are imposed by the Iranian regime... In brief, an Iran never before seen by Western audiences...” (Politis)

RECENT / UPCOMING FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS, EXHIBITIONS :


Sound installation and other media presented at:

Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program - Exhibit

May 9-16, 2009
at ART IN GENERAL
79 Walker Street, 6th floor
New York, NY

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 6–8 pm

Gallery hours
Monday–Sunday, 12–6 pm

A People in the Shadows

at Encuentros del Otro Cine - May 11th and 14th, 2009
Quito and Guayagil, Ecuador
http://www.festivaledoc.org/edoc8/site/contents/index/

at Dok Fest Munich - MAY 11th and 13th, 2009
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/

at Cinéma du Réel - Centre Pompidou in Paris
MARCH 13 and MARCH 14, 2009
http://www.cinereel.org/article3313.html

Available for sale to industry at Docs for Sale Online - IDFA
http://idfa.nl/industry/docs-for-sale.aspx

Shirin Ebadi : a simple lawyer

at Docs à Tunis - APRIL 4, 2009
http://docatunis.nesselfen.org/mod09.php?page=doc62