Mun koti

My Home

Forum Expanded 2022

“A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday in the yard of a kindergarten, even though I am not in kindergarten anymore.” Fragmented memories of childhood and adulthood blend together in a song that an unknown narrator is humming. Children are learning a new game in a sixties TV show. Someone is waiting in the hallway for permission to re-enter the classroom. Everything is set. Everything is nailed down.
Childhood is both hard to forget and to remember. There is a lack of words as we are still learning them—the way that words are put together and then validated. The film goes through various archives, both personal and public, from different times and from different moments of life. It tries to remember. These ingredients do not build a single coherent narrative, one pure argument, a continuously developing story of growth, nor a piece that is solely a person’s own. We know and remember things even if they have not happened to us.

by Azar Saiyar
with Aran Saiyar, Dunja Saiyar Finland 2022 Finnish 12’ Colour & Black/White

With

Aran Saiyar
Dunja Saiyar

Crew

Written and Directed by	Azar Saiyar
Cinematography	Joonas Kiviharju, Azar Saiyar
Editing	Azar Saiyar
Sound Design	Kaino Wennerstrand
Sound	Kaino Wennerstrand
Voice-Over	Kaino Wennerstrand
Producer	Azar Saiyar

World sales

AV-arkki – The Centre for Finnish Media Art

Produced by

bolbol

Photos

Azar Saiyar

Azar Saiyar is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and visual artist whose art has been shown at film and media art festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Uppsala SFF, IFF Message to Man, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, as well as in galleries, exhibitions, museums, and on television. She often uses archive materials and plays with images and words of our collective memory. This way she approaches ways of looking, speaking, remembering, and telling stories. She also does collaborative works with other artists.

Filmography

2006 snowsandrainpaper; with Joonas Kiviharju, 22 min. 2009 Helsinki–Tehran; 22 min. 2013 Ring; with Sini Liimatainen, 3 min. 2014 Primus Tempus; 5 min. 2016 History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails; 7 min. 2017 Child and a Tea Glass; 4 min. · Catalogue Dialogue; 6 min. 2018 Hey You!; 7 min. · Monument of Distance; 7 min. 2019 Tell Me; 8 min. 2021 Laila’s Apple; 8 min. · Roses; 3 min. 2022 Mun koti (My Home)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022