Song Sparrow is about immigration. People of different color
and race and culture, old and young, embark on journeys, eager to
find some place they can call home, or just some place they can live
in. Many brave perils more formidable than the ones they ran for in
the first place. It is not always weathering storms till and onto
shores of calm and prosperity; many a time storms keep them company
on and off shores. They dream of better lives while in reality having
little choice. It is about a real event which happened in Austria in
August 2015, where flesh and bone of human and animal become
intermingled. This short movie may inspire the viewer to ask: "is
it better to go or stay", or more accurately: "is it worse
to stay than to go? Is a large chunk of humanity entrapped by events
befallen their lands many centuries before they were even born? Song
Sparrow uses dolls to pose these questions. It is no less
disturbing even though dolls have no life in them. But an attempt is
made to show the situation faced by those that have no choice but to
put their lives in peril to escape perils of staying, and to trade
staying within chaos for a chaotic escape.
Biography:
Farzaneh
Omidvarnia was born in Iran, Graduated from University of Tehran,
and faculty of Fine Arts. She received a PhD in Design in 2015 from
Technical University of Denmark. Following her graduation, she began
to focus on creation of fabric sculptures and writing short stories.
Her artworks soon appeared in several art exhibition in Europe and
Iran, and she published her first collection of short stories in
2016. In 2017, she directed and produced her first animated film “To
Be” (6 minutes, drama). The movie was acclaimed internationally and
won prizes in different festivals.
