Accursed Effigy
Amirmahdi Kalantari & Abraham Paul Velázquez Navarro
Official Selection
𖤘 Short: Experimental
Accursed Effigy is a flash-forward; an imaginary future vision. The film ventures into the haunting remnants of humanity, the silent witness of its collective collapse, and the ethereal rebirth of nature in the absence of mankind.
Kalantari is an Iranian photographer and filmmaker based in Berlin. His work ranges from portraiture to documentary and essay films, seeking to explore answers to empirical questions.
Velázquez Navarro is a Mexican photographer and artist based in Berlin. With a background in photography and an interest for analogue photographic procedures, his work explores the dimension of spaces through precise compositions.
Production: Amirmahdi Kalantari & Abraham Paul Velázquez Navarro
Score composer: Sadra Gardeshi
Narrator: Elisabet Kiefer
Courtesy of the artists