We spoke with the conflict zone documentarian MahyadT about his debut film 'Remote,' growing up during a revolution, and why the entire cast of his film had to be women.
Photo courtesy of Samuel Campbell
TOUSI: If you recall in 2009, Twitter was just a place where you posted your status about what you were doing. It wasn’t really until a couple of political events happened—and then it really blew up with Iran—that Twitter became a news gathering entity. I remember I was flying from New York to San Francisco when the 2009 [Green Movement] happened. I landed in San Francisco and my phone was blowing up with things like, “They’re killing people.
VON OLDERSHAUSEN: I’ve been so surprised that, particularly at this moment in America, given everything that happened with the overturning with Roe v. Wade, more American women haven’t been rallying behind this movement in Iran because it’s the same throughline. It’s about autonomy over one’s own body, the freedom to choose.
TOUSI: I don’t think we were necessarily thinking about exile narratives, but the reality was that both Mika and I are transplants. She’s Israeli, I’m Iranian and we grew up in different places. She was born in Argentina, I was born in the U.S. We both grew up for a short period of time in the place we’re from, and then spent most of our time here in the U.S.
VON OLDERSHAUSEN: It’s interesting because in watching this film, I didn’t even really register at any point that it was all women—maybe because it was just intuitive in that way.VON OLDERSHAUSEN: There was so much that was familiar to me in watching the film.
TOUSI: We love the solarpunk aesthetic. Both aesthetically, from a design perspective, and narratively. So we knew we wanted this future to be a solarpunk future. You know, she’s got the herbs she puts over her omelet at the beginning while drones are trafficking outside her window. And that she can harvest her own vegetables to make food and then the packaging — I mean it’s easy to write; it was amazing that they could build it.TOUSI: Rice paper.
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