Parham Ghalamdar | Iran
7 min | Eng. Subs
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“The Sight is a Wound” by Parham Ghalamdar is a haunting reflection on the collapse of imagery amid modern atrocities. In response to the genocide in Gaza—broadcast in unbearable clarity—Ghalamdar burns over 50 of his own paintings, transforming creation into destruction. The flames become a visceral response to the impossibility of making art more urgent than lived horror. Neither documentary nor protest, the film unfolds as a video-poem mourning the moral collapse of image-making and the failure of seeing in an age of digital saturation. It is both a funeral for the image and an invocation of silence.