Art Beats Festival 24

The Story of DARAK (Setayesh Nejadmohammad Namaghi)

15min 6s – 1920×864

Synopsis

The story of Derek (a small, beautiful village, with unique ecological perspectives in the world) is a simple narrative of people’s lives in the contrast between tradition and being modern.

Artist Statement

DARAK (small village), is important in the Eco Vision section from the following aspects:

– Environmental: Darak is village with a completely indigenous and traditional culture. ecologically and unique regions of the world, where the desert meets the coast. At the same time, all geomorphological features including mountains, plains, forests, deserts, seas, sand dunes can be seen in one frame.

– Social point of view: the people of the region have a completely traditional culture (many girls are not allowed to appear in front of the camera)

– Climate change and people’s livelihoods: the contrast between tradition and modernity on people’s culture, efforts for a better life by mothers and daughters, expressing the hardships of life and preserving the environment and sustainable development are some of the special views of this film with a completely simple and childlike expression. 
The value of this work is in expressing the problem of the confrontation between sustainable development and modernity in a unique coastal ecosystem in simple language.

Setayesh Nejadmohammad Namaghi

I am an 18-year-old girl born in Mashhad, Iran. I am a senior high school student of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents school (SAMPAD).

I have successfully completed the introductory courses related to cinema (directing, filming, script writing, editing) at the Iranian Youth Cinema Association under the supervision of prominent Iranian filmmaking professors for one year. 
The most important short films produced in the last two years include: The Story of a Centaur, DARAK, Documentary, Exam, Box, LAK- Morgh, Pulse, Stage.

In addition to directing and editing short films, I have become an outstanding student of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents school (SAMPAD) in the field of mathematics and physics, I have been honored to receive an honors diploma for a Python programming project, and a silver medal in the national Olympiad in the field of thinking and entrepreneurship.