User:پویا عاقلی زاده

Pouya Aghelizadeh (7 June 1990-) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, editor and film critic known for SurrealSundayS movie sessions he founded in 2016. He is an experimental and art short movie screenwriter and director. He has made three movie named The Nest (2011), Room No. 4 (2016) and Light Room (2019).

He is founded movie session of analyzing Modern Cinema in Iran by running many movie screening and collective analysis. He has run many sessions of analysis of movies made by Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Pierre Melville, Andrei Tarkovsky, Roman Polanski, Roy Anderson, Andrey Zvyagintsev and some other modern cinema filmmakers. He has also many articles about the movies of Surreal Cinema.

He is notable for arguing that encountering with great movies today has value only if it has evaluated like the way of encountering with Visual Arts and specially Painting. He uses some Psychiatric methods for analysis of movies derived from Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung.

He is the executive manager of Iranian Contemporary Experimental Cinema (Persian: هفته‌ی سینمای تجربه‌گرای ایران) to screen and analysis of movies of young filmmakers in Iran. This event has run two times in Iranian Artists Forum at 2017 and 2019 with supporting and participating of Mohammadreza Aslani, the great filmmaker. At second event in 2019, for the first time in Iran they've also screened and run analysis of Maya Deren movies.

Biography
Pouya Aghelizdeh was born in Tehran, Iran. He and his family went to Paris for two years and then they've come back to Iran.

He has studied Computer Science in University of Tehran and then Dramatic-Literature in Art University of Tehran.

Career
He is a Filmmaker, screenwriter and movie Editor. He is a film critic of International Cinema. He ha also been Branding and Advertisement Manager of some industrial companies. Now he is active in film making and writing criticism about new and old movies.

His previous movie, Room No. 4 had been many international and internal screenings and also was winner of Best Student Film of Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival(US) and Sochi Film Festival (Russia).

His new movie, Light Room with surreal and cinema nostalgic space has premiered in Iran in 36th Tehran International Short Film Festival.

He has run many events in cultural centers like University of Tehran and Iranian Artists Forum.

Works

 * Light Room (2019)
 * Room No. 4 (2016)
 * The Nest (2011)


 * DeHumanize (video clip) (2012)




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 * Cinema-Photography: Analysis of Roy Anderson's Trilogy of 'living'


 * Cinema and Culture Movie Sessions




 * Iranian Contemporary Experimental Cinema (Persian: هفته‌ی سینمای تجربه‌گرای ایران)