14/04/2022
Mokri constructs his film like a control experiment, tweaking each of its variables — time, space, narrative — as if to see what he might catalyze. — New York Times
Watch Shahram Mokri's latest feature Careless Crime on Spamflix. Mokri, whose films often play with the concept of time, now sets out to tell a story using time as circular dimension, picking up 40 years after the Cinema Rex fire that might've ignited the Iranian Revolution. World premiered at Biennale.
On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people 40 years after the Cinema Rex fire. Will past and present meet?