2014 | Germany, Austria | Experimental

Babash

  • 9 mins
  • Director | Lisa Truttmann

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Babash is a parrot who speaks mostly Farsi but ­sometimes mixes English and Azeri into his ­conversations. A singular language resulting from the place where he lives: a house in Los Angeles shared with an Iranian family. The same place where Behrouz Rae developed a friendship with Babash over the years. This short film is an associative portrait about a special relationship and the ­domestic surroundings in which it grew. An ­assemblage where household objects, daily movements and playful intimacies are mixed with a dauntless montage, precise sounds and a sensitive gaze. Observing this genuine cross-species friendship between Babash and Behrouz, listening to their shared invented language, it’s possible to grasp an equally shared and evocative sense of misplacement.

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