Accession
2018, 49min
" Shooting for more than five years in 13 locations around the U.S., Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian trace a collection of letters to the homes where each was sent or received in this uniquely process-based documentary. The letters, written to accompany seed packets sent between friends and families and dated as far back as 1806, are read aloud by individual narrators, unfolding as personal-poetic reflections on life and labor in rural America. Via a variety of 16mm film stocks, Accession maps a visual and aural correspondence between anonymous people and places with an exploratory flair. "
- Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center
“ Filmmakers Hassan and Tufenkian have done more than just bemoan the slow fading away of a ritual—the careful and deliberate cultivation and digging of the earth—that is as old as we are, but have also contributed, by celebrating the unassuming diligence of those carrying on, their own elegiac visual love letter to the inventory. ”
- David Perin, MUBI Notebook
Screenings/Exhibitions:
Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2024
Visible Evidence, Venice, 2023
Bienal Ciudad y Ciencia, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2023
Sheffield Doc/Fest, online, 2020
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, online
Our Habitats, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, online
Daimon Musetra International de Cine, online
UnionDocs, New York, 2020
MoCA Skopje, Skopje, 2019
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, 2019
Viennale, Vienna, 2019
Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, 2019
Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, Mar Del Plata, 2018
UNDERDOX International Film Festival, Munich, 2018
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2018, 49min
" Shooting for more than five years in 13 locations around the U.S., Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian trace a collection of letters to the homes where each was sent or received in this uniquely process-based documentary. The letters, written to accompany seed packets sent between friends and families and dated as far back as 1806, are read aloud by individual narrators, unfolding as personal-poetic reflections on life and labor in rural America. Via a variety of 16mm film stocks, Accession maps a visual and aural correspondence between anonymous people and places with an exploratory flair. "
- Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center
“ Filmmakers Hassan and Tufenkian have done more than just bemoan the slow fading away of a ritual—the careful and deliberate cultivation and digging of the earth—that is as old as we are, but have also contributed, by celebrating the unassuming diligence of those carrying on, their own elegiac visual love letter to the inventory. ”
- David Perin, MUBI Notebook
Screenings/Exhibitions:
Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2024
Visible Evidence, Venice, 2023
Bienal Ciudad y Ciencia, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2023
Sheffield Doc/Fest, online, 2020
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, online
Our Habitats, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, online
Daimon Musetra International de Cine, online
UnionDocs, New York, 2020
MoCA Skopje, Skopje, 2019
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, 2019
Viennale, Vienna, 2019
Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, 2019
Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, Mar Del Plata, 2018
UNDERDOX International Film Festival, Munich, 2018
