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    An Echoing Memory of a Tongue | Una memoria echeggiante di una lingua

    Arash Akhgari
    Canada | 2017 | 1’48’’

    An Echoing Memory of a Tongue is an abstract visual trace of a stutter, the struggle that a person with chronic stuttering faces while speaking. In this broken-narrative, hand painted imagery, the combination of visuals, voices and music tries to reflect the dialectical intricacies of weight and freedom within this struggle. This animation was inspired by Akghari’s stuttering since childhood, which undermined his own speech-acts, spawning different kinds of limitation.

    Direction:  Arash Akhgari
    Animation: Arash Akhgari
    Screenplay: Amir Tabatabaei
    Editing: Arash Akhgari
    Sound Design: Arash Akhgari
    Music: Ashkan Behzadi
    Voices: Arian Behzadi, Nikki Hogan
    Producer: Arash Akhgari

    Arash Akhgari

    Iranian-Canadian director born in 1984, independent animator and visual artist, he focuses on expressive language of visual art, moving image and abstract story telling. He works with traditional mediums for animation as well as painting, drawing and collage, and explores contemporary visual languages.