My Lovely Home / Filmmaking / 2021

My Lovely Home is an experimental dance film made by Alireza Keymanesh during the Covid-19 pandemic, inspired by Gilles Deleuze's essay “The Exhausted.”

An exhausted man, striving to find a home, heads nowhere.
Do we truly own the home we live in?        

What and where is home?

Do we own any place at all or are we essentially usurpers?

What is humankind struggling for?

We all have our own burdens, weighing us down: “our inner conflict with being,” “the pressure of our past,” “our emotional complexities,” “the epigenetic trauma of humankind” and so on. These burdens have exhausted humankind, but we are still moving. Despite this exhausted existence, humankind bravely moves forward striving to find a home, heading nowhere.

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AWARDS:

• 2021 - Greensboro Dance Film Festival - Jury’s golden filmmaking award - North Carolina, USA.

SCREENINGS:

2021 - Premiere - Light Moves Festival of Screendance - Ireland.
2021 - Short Film Corner I Rendez-vous of Cannes Festival - France.
2021 - Greensboro Dance Film Festival - North Carolina, USA. 

CREDITS:

Director, Producer, Choreographer: Alireza Keymanesh
Production of: 33Project
Cinematographer and Editor: Alireza Keymanesh
Dancers: Kourosh Mohammadi, Houshyar Ghassimi, Afshin Hassanloo
Music: Peter Pirhosseinloo
Color Grading: Akbar Ali Asghari
Programmer: Mohammad Barari
Production Manager: Houshyar Ghasimi
Graphic Designer: Elmira Laki
Photo Credits: Alireza Keymanesh