{"id":1317,"date":"2010-06-06T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2010-06-06T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:56:50","slug":"dreaming-is-a-crime-jafar-panahi-on-his-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming is a crime: Jafar Panahi on his detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jafar Panahi after release<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jafar Panahi says at the moment he has little hope of making another film, all he can do is produce a film in his head but he adds “I will have to make a film, that is my life.” He is eager to thank all those who called for his release, film directors, actors, theatre directors, artists , festival organsiers but also his friends and compatriots.<\/p>\n

He says : “I started the hunger strike when one night they took me for questioning and the interrogators asked: ‘what is the name of your film?’ I thought they were referring to the film I was making when they arrested me in my house on the 1st of March. So I replied ‘that film isn’t finished yet so it hasn’t got a name’. They replied no no, we are asking about the film you are making in prison in your cell.'”<\/p>\n

“I said: ‘What film?’ These people really thought someone had smuggled a camera and I was making a film in their jail! The truth is once I told a group of fellow prisoners that I have so far made five films and as a joke I added ‘and here I am making a film of myself’. The jail authorities must have heard this and thought that in my tiny cell I was making a film.”<\/p>\n

Panahi adds: “All the pressures imposed by these interrogators are due to their imagination, it shows their fear of cinema. Here (in Iran) it is a crime even to think about making a film! Dreaming about a film is a crime.”<\/p>\n

(Translation from Farsi by HOPI)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jafar Panahi says at the moment he has little hope of making another film, all he can do is produce a film in his head but he adds “I will have to make a film, that is my life.” He is eager to thank all those who called for his release, film directors, actors, theatre … <\/p>\n

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