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    [EFF19S1] Session 1: A Moon For My Father, Mania Akbari And Douglas White

    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF19S1] Session 1: A Moon For My Father, Mania Akbari And Douglas White. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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    26 March 2019, 20:30, ICA Cinema

    Film: A Moon for My Father, Mani Akbari and Douglas White, UK/Iran/Germany, 2018, DCP, 85 minutes, English and Farsi with English subtitles

    Written and directed by London-based Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari and her partner, the British sculptor Douglas White, A Moon for My Father (2018) considers the mysterious connections between death and loss, memory, love, family ties, the body, birth and artistic creation.
    The film takes an epistolary form, drawing on several years of written correspondence between Akbari and White. Deftly interwoven alongside the letters are family photos, archival footage from Iran, imagery from White’s artwork, and scenes of the couple’s everyday life together. As Akbari undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicised, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.

    This screening was followed by a discussion between directors Mania Akbari and Douglas White and filmmaker Miranda Pennell.

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    1 - EFF19S1 Introduction (EFF19S1 Mania Akbari A Moon For My Father introduction 26-3-2019.MP3)

    2 - EFF19S1 Q&A (EFF19S1 Mania Akbari A Moon For My Father Q&A EFF19S1 Mania Akbari A Moon For My Father.MP3)

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    [EFF19S1] Session 1: A Moon For My Father, Mania Akbari And Douglas White
    Creators:

    Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    CollaboratorMcCabe, Janetj.mccabe@bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876
    CollaboratorYapp, Emmaeyapp01@student.bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6066
    CollaboratorFreeman, Nicolasnicolasfreeman@outlook.comUNSPECIFIED
    Subjects:

    Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Data collection method:

    The Essay Film Festival, active since 2015, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes.
    Collection period:

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    26 March 201926 March 2019
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    All film stills were provided by participating artists.
    Depositing User: Emma Yapp
    Date Deposited: 01 Sep 2026 10:19
    Last Modified: 01 Sep 2026 10:19
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF19S1] Session 1: A Moon For My Father, Mania Akbari And Douglas White. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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