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The Mix
With
only three days left to the end of the Fajr International Film
Festival, a film director and his technical crew are working day
and night to prepare their film for screening at the last hours
of the festival. While they are doing their best to finish the
last post- production stages, they realize they have to surmount
innumerable obstacles before they can achieve their end...
Director's View
"The editing stage
represents for me that creative phase when the essence of at
least a year of work has to be given its final structure or
shape. But as far as I can remember in the past 15 to 20 years -
with a few exceptions (The Tenants, and my latest film The Mix)
- this final stage of artistic creation has always been burdened
with pressures resulting from the influences of the capital or
the government decrees. I have had to finish the film under
extremely painful, exhausting and irresponsible mental set-up,
and as a result I have never been able to see the finished
picture with the serenity of mind, all of the films in a single,
continuous screening, instead of viewing different reels at
different times, not necessarily in sequential order. Those
moments were always accompanied with the hurry and hustle of
preparing the final print in time for its screening at Fajr
Festival, as otherwise the picture's public screening would be
delayed by a couple of years, resulting in loss of capital while
the print gathers dust on the shelf. All this made film editing
one of the most enervating, tormenting and at the same time
absurd moments of filmmaking for me. The Mix is a reflection of
my impressions and experiences of those moments."
Director, screenwriter:
Dariush Mehrjui
Producers: Sirus
Taslimi, Faramarz Farazmand, Mehrjui
Photography: Mahmud
Kalari
Music: Nasser
Cheshm-Azar
Editing: Hassan
Hassandoust
Art Directors: Amir
Seyyedi, Mehrjui
Sound-recording:
Asghar Shahverdi, Behruz Mo'avenian
Sound Mix: Mohammad
Reza Delpak
Make-up Artist:
Mohsen Mousavi
Cast:
Khosro Shakibai, Negar Forouzande, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia,
Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Nasser Cheshm-Azar, Ferdos
Kaviani, Gohar Kheirandish, Rahman Hosseini
Color, 107 mins.
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