Underwater Eruptions | Part 3: Incomplete Circle
Poster Designed by Amirali Ghasemi
Artists
Curator
Underwater eruptions / فوران زیر آب
Part 3: incomplete circle / سه: چرخهی ناکامل
March 19-20, 2026
The third part of Underwater Eruptions coincides with Nowruz, which is celebrated among many cultures
This year, the burning war across West Asia leaves us aflame, grieving, and bitter. We are incomplete without our loved ones, our roots, and the disturbed soil. We gather in an incomplete circle, the more the merrier. Join us on the last day of the year and the 1st day of the new one.
The incomplete circle starts its program on March 19, from 17:00 to 19:00, with a screening of short animations by five Iranian filmmakers and artists: Maede Jenab, Toktam Tajafari Sahebi, Lida Ebrahimi, Golnaz Moghaddam & A video installation by Payam Mofidi.
Animation Screening
Walking and Falling
Lida Ebrahimi
Emerging from the ordinary scenes of a routine day, Walking and Falling is an insight into the animator's new life as a migrant and a student. The film is a self-observation of the careful, uneasy steps in a motionless, devoid environment. The 2'10" animation is responding to Laurie Anderson’s song Walking and Falling, featured on her 1982 album Big Science.
Now I See …
Maede Jenab
My Granny passed away and left me with lots of questions about her mind. Now, after a year, she starts to help me to understand her world by signs and colors...
Written and Directed by Maede Jenab - Director of Camera (Documentary part): Maede Jenab - Director of Camera (Performance part): Maede Jenab, Nariman Ghasemi - Light: Amir Moghtada, Milad Jenab
Misplaced
Maede Jenab
It is the beginning of the first lockdown in France. She is an Iranian student there and very happy about this unplanned vacation. But things turn differently...
Dream
Golnaz Moghadam
What if we could freeze our memories for a single day, when we are old and lonely? This question has guided Golnaz as she lived with her beloved grandfather, who suffered from Alzheimer›s. Over the years, she witnessed his mind hold onto old memories while erasing the new—until the day he no longer recognized her, mistaking her for her mother in her youth.
This stop-motion animation is Golnaz’s first exploration of the technique, created for her thesis. It received the Best Script award at the 9th Animation Biennial in Iran and has been screened and nominated at numerous international festivals.
Un Rêve
Toktam Tajafari Sahebi
«Un Rêve» is a snapshot of a love story, a tale inspired by the artist’s life. We see the couple drawn at different scales on the plane. Suddenly, the woman falls into a river and floats away alone, we do not know where, it could be in limbo.
Riviere sol (A Girl in the River)
Toktam Tajafari Sahebi
«Un Rêve» is a snapshot of a love story, a tale inspired by the artist’s life. We see the couple drawn at different scales on the plane. Suddenly, the woman falls into a river and floats away alone, we do not know where, it could be in limbo.
Sang des montagnes (Blood of the mountains)
Toktam Tajafari Sahebi
Blood of the Mountains combines visual poetry and political reflection: the artist’s dreams illuminate contemporary tensions and memory, emancipation intersecting there within a singular graphic language.
Video instlattion
Variations on an Instrument of Human Anatomy
Payam Mofidi
A statue of power is endlessly duplicated in an unbalanced and unstable condition as a way to mock the “human as a sculpture” and to present a “body without organs” outside the temporal attributes of the video medium.