Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.
Tafakory’s new film, Daria’s Night Flower, functions as a fragmented, essayistic text, merging found‐footage and scripted narrative elements, typical of Tafakory’s experimental approach. It constitutes their ongoing body of research into representations of women, or the lack thereof, in post-revolution Iranian cinema. It focuses on the concealed queer stories and the representation of desire through a system of codes and leaving things unsaid.
Maryam will present a performative lecture, followed by a Q&A, on Saturday 28 February 2026. More details to follow.
Press release from Project Arts Centre
Image: Maryam Tafakory. Daria’s Night Flowers. 2025. Still image. Image courtesy of the artist
