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DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday February 6th @ 5:30 PM\, the Critical Media Lab will
  have the distinct pleasure of hosting filmmaker Shahab Mihandoust for a s
 creening of his film Meezan (Scale) (2023)\, recipient of the 'New Visions
 ' award at this year's RIDM festival. Proceedings will occur in Peterson H
 all 108.\n\nThe screening will be followed by an in-person discussion with
  Shahab.\n\n \n\nSynopsis:\n\nSet in south-western Iran\, in the province 
 of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq\, Meezan (Scale) is an immersive expe
 rience about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. D
 eparting from the shore of Abadan\, the first oil company-town in the Midd
 le East\, it follows a group of Arab fisherman who exemplify the realities
  of maintaining intergenerational ways of living and working on the sea. T
 he men lead us to Bahrakan harbor where they barter for their share of the
  catch. What is contemporaneously a meeting place for fishmongering was a 
 site of arduous migration for refugees fleeing Abadan after the mass destr
 uctions of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980’s. Meezan concludes in a secluded shr
 imp processing plant on the outskirts of Abadan where women who are shuttl
 ed in from surrounding villages furiously peel and devein shrimps in their
  own race for wages. Despite the massive industrialization of the region\,
  waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the nati
 ve communities who are most intimately connected to these embattled landsc
 apes\, and Meezan is a reflection on the relation between bodies and scale
 s to acknowledge the weight of the past and its consequences in the presen
 t.\n\n \n\nBio:\n\nShahab Mihandoust was born and raised in Tehran before 
 he moved to Tio’tia:ke/Montreal in 2004. Inspired by ethnographic approach
 es to research and creation\, his documentary practice stands at the inter
 section between cinema and anthropology\, and his work often approaches th
 e entanglement of identity and labor in everyday life practices\; and as t
 hey relate to natural and built environments to understand the impacts of 
 social\, cultural and political processes on people and places.\n
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LOCATION:108\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTa
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SUMMARY:Meezan (Scale) screening with filmmaker Shahab Mihandoust 
URL:/anthropology/channels/event/meezan-scale-screenin
 g-filmmaker-shahab-mihandoust-356146
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