Monument Zero: Buchvorstellung + Film + Podiumsdiskussion

Monument Zero' is a project that emerged from an intergenerational, collective feminist practice.

It deals with the historical erasure of the International Women's Day protests on March 8, 1979 in Iran and at the same time traces the continuity of feminist struggles from that moment to the present. Absence, preservation and transmission emerge as central concerns and bring collective authorship and feminist archival practice to the fore as forms of resistance. The project is based on the short film 'Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero' (1979), which documented women's protests against the compulsory introduction of the hijab at a time when the Islamic Republic was still on the rise.

Initiated by Katayoon Barzegar and expanded through collaboration with artists, researchers and historians, the publication 'Monument Zero' brings together essays, archival materials and visual contributions that explore how scattered traces of resistance are remembered, documented or made invisible. At dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, Katayoon Barzegar and Behshad Tajammol will talk about their collaborative research process and the development of the archive that shaped the project. The event will also include excerpts from their new hybrid documentary 'Murmurs in the Distance', which was realized together with Pegah Pasalar.