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Film, 4:3 (Screen. F.: DCP/ 2K File, Orig. F.: 16mm-Film), Color, Stereo, 4 Min. | Director, Concept, Production, Camera, Editing, Field Recordings, Location, Colors: Lydia Nsiah | Music: Rojin Sharafi | Location Scouting & Production Support: Pavlina Delcheva | Audio Mastering: Enyang Urbiks | Cast: Gholam Reza Darvish Zadeh, Ashraf Alkaradi, Renan Cruz, Said Mustafa Hashemi | supported by Stadt Wien Kultur | distributed by sixpackfilm & Lydia Nsiah, 2025
Images above: frame grabs of artist by Lydia Nsiah, 2025
artist highlights self-care and masculinity from an artistic and documentary perspective. The film celebrates images of togetherness, care and sensitivity at the Mr. Artist Barbershop in Vienna. Filmed by hand the camera stays close to the protagonists. The body rhythm of the filmmaker is written in- and onto the film exposures and converses with the experienced hand gestures of the barbers. Through craft and artistic expression two forms of work enter into a sensual and transformative dialogue with each other. The analogue, warmly colored and, by montage rhythm as well as shifted views, abstracted 16mm-film exposures are interwoven with the immersive and nuanced sound space composed by the musician Rojin Sharafi.