Event

Pegah Pasalar virtual Q&A

Soft Cage Films is proud to partner with local filmmaker Pegah Pasalar to host a Q&A on 2 of her short films: "Saturday" and "Lost in her hair (Monday)". The virtual Q&A is on Wednesday August 19th at 6:30pm CT. Local activist Troi Valles will moderate a discussion with Pegah before taking questions from the community.

Registration is FREE! Once registered, through Brown Paper Tickets, you will receive a link to both short films and an invite to the Q&A Zoom event on August 19th.

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"Saturday" is an 8-minute short film that follows a family of five as they spend a day at the beach from the perspective of their young daughter. Director Pegah Pasalar attends to the minute, fragmentary details as an unexpected crisis unfolds to produce a poetic ambiguity.

"Lost in her hair (Monday)" is a 6-minute short film about an excited young Iranian girl getting ready for her first day of school. As her mother is brushing her hair and dressing her, she has varied conversations with off-frame family members that reflect cultural specificities.

Director Biography
Pegah Pasalar is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago. She received her bachelor's degree from the Art University of Tehran majoring in cinema editing. She is a full-merit scholarship awardee at the SAIC where she holds a master of fine arts in studio with an emphasis in film and video. The theme of her work is centered on the position of women in the family and society, social criticism of childhood and parenting, displacement and transitions. She reflects on these themes through different hybrid mediums and forms using a personal but holistic, poetic yet resonant way.
https://www.pegahpslr.com/