New Land - 10 min, (1978-2023), NL/IR

Performance - Samieh Shahcheraghi
Film - Noud Heerkens

In 1978 filmmaker Noud Heerkens shot a 16mm film in a reclaimed polder near Delft. About a man who breaks with his familiar surroundings and seeks out the unknown. In 2023 the half-edited film comes out of the filmcan. Heerkens finishes the film, full of scratches and cables. The Iranian artist Samieh Shahcheraghi feels affinity with the man ánd with the film. 45 years after Heerkens, Shahcheraghi depicts her departure from her homeland Iran with poetry, paper and pen.















Pale Gold Revisited - 16mm triptych (1988-2023) NL/IR
Performance & Film - Samieh Shahcheraghi, Piet Rogie, Noud Heerkens

The film triptych from Pale Gold, a location performance from 1988, is revisited by its creators choreographer Piet Rogie and filmmaker Noud Heerkens. The six scenes, with unapproachable and lonely characters, exude the existentialism of the 20th century in everything. 35 years later the Iranian artist Samieh Shahcheraghi uses movement, paper and cello to enter into a dialogue with these isolated figures from the 1980s.