Beautiful Apparitions
Parham Ghalamdar
Beautiful Apparitions
Boomkat Product Review:
Rowdy, celebratory snapshots of secret family life in Iran’s Islamic Republic during the early ‘00s. There’s a twinge of voyeurism listening into someone else’s life behind closed doors, but it also feels a privilege to be invited as an onlooker. A right mad knees up, this!
“Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.
"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."
— Parham Ghalamdar”
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Boomkat Product Review:
Rowdy, celebratory snapshots of secret family life in Iran’s Islamic Republic during the early ‘00s. There’s a twinge of voyeurism listening into someone else’s life behind closed doors, but it also feels a privilege to be invited as an onlooker. A right mad knees up, this!
“Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.
"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."
— Parham Ghalamdar”
Boomkat Product Review:
Rowdy, celebratory snapshots of secret family life in Iran’s Islamic Republic during the early ‘00s. There’s a twinge of voyeurism listening into someone else’s life behind closed doors, but it also feels a privilege to be invited as an onlooker. A right mad knees up, this!
“Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.
"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."
— Parham Ghalamdar”
Boomkat Product Review:
Rowdy, celebratory snapshots of secret family life in Iran’s Islamic Republic during the early ‘00s. There’s a twinge of voyeurism listening into someone else’s life behind closed doors, but it also feels a privilege to be invited as an onlooker. A right mad knees up, this!
“Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.
"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."
— Parham Ghalamdar”
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Boomkat Product Review:
Rowdy, celebratory snapshots of secret family life in Iran’s Islamic Republic during the early ‘00s. There’s a twinge of voyeurism listening into someone else’s life behind closed doors, but it also feels a privilege to be invited as an onlooker. A right mad knees up, this!
“Tehran-born, Manchester-based artist Parham Ghalamdar provides a suite of raw & candid amateur-performed Persian folk, pop songs and poetry - all pulled from the audio on his parents archive of homemade VHS recordings documenting intimate, joyous & illicit gatherings in turn-of-the-century Iran.
"Beautiful Apparitions is a collection of audio excerpts from digitized VHS tapes recorded by my parents in early-noughties Iran. The footage depicts the secret double lives of Iranians drinking, dancing, and singing to celebrate life when owning a VHS player was illegal in the Islamic Republic. The footage is an amateur performance of pop and folklore songs about love, loss and life. Although many Iranians must have recorded such vivid moments, they are rarely made available publicly. Such tapes would usually have been well hidden, lost, or purposefully destroyed."
— Parham Ghalamdar”
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