You Can’t Show My Face

You Can’t Show My Face
Sweden, 2021, 34’
in Farsi and English w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles

Director: Knutte Wester
Producers: Felicia Bergh, Andreas Emanuelsson
Editor: Jesper Osmund
Production Company: Iris Film
The sounds of the streets are transformed into forbidden beats, people sing while young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government, and a vision of a utopia within creativity. Street salesmen and pedestrians form an imaginary choir of the streets, backing up the youth, suggesting the public space should belong to the public. The narrative is captured in a circular chronology, in a single day from dawn to dawn, embodying a situation.

Knutte Wester

Born in 1977, Knutte Wester is educated at the academy of fine arts in Umeå. (SIDA scholarship at Wist, Johannesburg, 2000). He has exhibited internationally since 2003 and is represented by Gallery Andersson/Sandström. His debut film was the documentary Gzim Rewind (2012) followed by the short film Dawn in a City Without Name, which won the Best Swedish Short award at Tempo 2014. In 2015, he was Artist in Residence at NARS in New York, working on the film project A Bastard Child, and in 2016 the film premiered at IDFA. In 2019, he had an exhibition at Azad Art gallery in Tehran, and at the moment his short film Where the Border Runs is exhibited at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Filmography

Gzim Rewind (2012), Dawn in a City Without Name (2014), A Bastard Child (2016), Where the Border Runs (2019), and You Can’t Show My Face (2021).