A Still from CAMP (2011)
An idea starts to emerge, which I then try to implement. I continue to research, shoot, and edit. Typically the idea fails. But I continue. In the failure something else starts to emerge. But I resist it and continue.
my recent installation, The End of an Error, which fictionalizes the end of McCarthyism in the USA as a history lesson from contemporary Iran.
Finally I’m forced to see its merits. Throughout and at last, the work must meet the criterion of musicality. Stigmart: Thanks for sharing your time and thoughts with us, Peter. What are your next projects on the horizon? Peter Freund: I’m working on a short video piece about the memory of Mohammed Mossadegh for an exhibit later this year in Tehran. The piece will accompany Acorus Calamus and
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