Sajad Yemeni

Mojtaba Zhian is an experimental and avant-garde Iranian filmmaker who makes films without a camera.He has made more than a thousand films so far, much more than Stan Brakhage.

This Film was created in a one-day challenge.

The film Apple invites the audience to a unique reflection, exploring the boundary between understanding and not understanding. The first half is told from the apple’s perspective, transitioning to the seed’s perspective as the image fragments. This narrative symbolizes a "return"—from the complete form of the apple to the abstract concept of its seed. Using the myth of Adam and Eve symbolically, the apple serves as a silent witness, offering itself to humanity. The film aims to take viewers to an emotional depth that is felt but hard to articulate. I believe cinema, by shifting perspectives, can transcend image and sound to explore new, deeper concepts.

This film reflects humanity’s detachment from nature. By creating a digital world, we’ve deprived ourselves of natural sensations, turning into mechanical beings. To depict this, I filmed an image of a flower seven times from a laptop screen, burying it under pixels. In the end, by reversing the film, I showed that the flower can never be free from pixels because even while watching this film, you’re only seeing pixels, not the flower.