"Through a radical practice of reconfiguring fragments of Iranian cinema, the artist confronts the ways in which women have been represented, erased, and controlled on screen. Often using fire-toned negatives that evoke the imagined burning of the Ministry of Culture, she transforms archival images into instruments of revolt. At its core, the film tells the story of two girls and Iran's first women's newspaper: a letter, a dream, a film that could never be made, and still cannot. Her tool is cinema, she makes cinema with the impossible cinema. Her voice is urgent, and for that, we are honored to award her the Honda Silvestre Prize for Best Short Film."
