“To Seven Houses Away” is a collection of everyday fragments that are nearly disappearing. Mothers, who have reached the third season of life and the word grandmother is now used to recall them.
In “To Seven Houses Away”, a hundred grandmothers have been selected from across the country on behalf of all Iranian mothers. They become hosts and we become guests; we meaning all those who still value living before everything else that there is or there should be.
Women across Iranian cities who are slowly disappearing and the image of their many years of being suddenly fades, without us even noticing.
Yet, it is enough to give one’s heart to the beloved, as there is and has never been a greater love than the mother; the union and the lover.
In the form of multiple documentary episodes, a bilingual book in English and Farsi, and a visual arts exhibition on kitchen utensils collected from mothers’ kitchens throughout Iran mixed with the art of contemporary Iranian artists, “to Seven Houses Away” will be presented to audiences in several preset parts.
With cooking as its excuse, “Seven Houses Away” takes a simple and bold glance at a great form of art that isn’t everyone’s specialty and is soon being forgotten. This art is nothing but living itself.