Farhad Kalantary
stills from The Keyless Hole, 16mm, Color, sound, 6 min, (1994 - )
The Keyless Hole was stimulated by a reading of Laura Mulvey’s views on scopophilia in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). In her essay she compares the cinematic to a voyeuristic view seen thorough a keyhole. She calls it a male gaze that objectifies the female body. Her ideas did make a lot of sense but I thought what we see through the that hole was not as important as the hole itself. ...
The Keyless Hole! ... Some where the key was lost... and the hole was longing for the key ...
The film was shown a few times but never completed; and to this day it longs for the key.
The Keyless Hole
A Short Clip will be added soon!
©Farhad Kalantary,2014