“ARNE SAID I WAS GONE” is an animated documentary exploring the individual and collective consequences of being marginalized and fighting totalitarian regimes. Haideh, an Iranian activist living in exile in Sweden, experiences an unexplained amnesia following a telephone interview about her political career and family. Her husband, Arne, becomes deeply concerned, and they visit the emergency room, where doctors diagnose her with transient global amnesia—a rare phenomenon triggered by the resurfacing of past traumas from the Iranian regimes rise to power in 1979.
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Arne Said I Was Gone
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Ardalan Ali
About the artist
Ali Ardalan, (b. 1985, Tehran) is a Stockholm-based visual artist and animator. He holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from HDK-Valand and has completed a post-master’s program in Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art. Ardalan’s work explores themes of identity, migration, and the dynamics of language within power structures. His installations and artworks have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries. His short film, This is Not a Line, won the International Media Art Competition at the Turku Art Academy in Finland.