Ryan Ferko

Ryan Ferko

Film Festival Reports

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL 2018: CHOOKA, BY FARAZ & PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR AND RYAN FERKO

By Ivonne Sheen

In Susan Sontag’s famous book, On Photography, she argues that we are living in Plato’s cave made out of reproducible images, questioning about our visual imaginaries, which are not only fed by concrete experience, but also by reproduced images. This argument can be read in Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko’s refined film Chooka (2018), which was part of the Media City Film Festival’s International Competition. 

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Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2017: WAVELENGTHS. (100) FT BY MINJUNG KIM AND HEART OF A MOUNTAIN BY PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, RYAN FERKO AND FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR

by Ivonne Sheen

In the section Wavelengths 3: figures in the landscapes, one can find two shortfalls which portrays a sort of Inner Landscape. This is to say, subjective experiences that find their appearances in the evocative power of a landscape. (100) ft by Minding Kim and Heart of a Mountain by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour, are cinematic Inner Landscapes that go deeper into images’ nature, instead of going wider. A exploration that comes from the inside and returns to it.

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