The Time that Separates Us (2022)
Parastoo Anoushahpour
The Time that Separates Us, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Iran/Canada, digital, 35 min, 2022
The Time that Separates Us circles the story of Lot’s Wife and its related sites of mythology: ancient salt-rock formations found doubled across a contested border. In the process, the Pillar of Salt becomes a portal through which to face the contemporary Jordan River Valley, its heavily militarized border and complex infrastructures of tourism, and the stigmatized realms of desire, sexuality, and gender encoded within this highly mediated political landscape.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and This Long Century.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits, and stills courtesy the artist © Parastoo Anoushahpour.
About the artist
Parastoo Anoushahpour (Iran/Canada) is an artist working with film, video, and installation, born in Tehran in 1986. Since 2013 she has often worked in collaboration with Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. She received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design (2014). Her recent solo and collaborative work has been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide, including ICA London, The Museum of Modern Art, Flaherty Film Seminar, Punto de Vista Film Festival, Sharjah Film Platform, Viennale, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and Media City Film Festival, winning an honourable mention at MCFF for Chooka (2018). She has been an artist in residence at the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Art, Taipei Artist Village, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She was 2019 Chalmers Arts Fellow and received a Media City Film Festival Chrysalis Fellowship (2020–21). Anoushahpour has curated film programs for venues including Al Qamar Film Festival, and was a founding member of MICE Magazine in 2016. She lives and works in Toronto.