{"id":2266463,"date":"2026-02-04T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2266463"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:12:23","slug":"wolfgang-at-rotterdam-iranian-filmmaker-on-their-audiovisual-acid-trip-opera-celebrating-mozart-and-silliness-and-resistance-from-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wolfgang-at-rotterdam-iranian-filmmaker-on-their-audiovisual-acid-trip-opera-celebrating-mozart-and-silliness-and-resistance-from-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wolfgang\u2019 at Rotterdam: Iranian Filmmaker on Their Audiovisual Acid Trip Opera Celebrating Mozart and \u201cSilliness,\u201d and Resistance From Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Gender-queered acid trip opera, anyone? Interested in an ode to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0003665\/\">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<\/a> and silliness? How about a film exploring the experience of Iranian artists in exile? Well, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6560035\/\">Wolfgang<\/a>, the minimal-budget feature directorial debut of Tehran-born audiovisual artist Filmsaaz \u2013 their real name is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10985063\/\">Saleh Kashefi<\/a>, is part of the Bright Future program of the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).<\/p>\n<p>The movie reimagines the life of 22-year-old Mozart in 1778, when the young musical genius was in exile in Paris, to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist living in exile in the French capital. \u201cReeling from his mother\u2019s death, Mozart spent his days writing scatalogical [meaning: referring to excrement and bodily functions] music and drowning in libertine excess,\u201d notes a synopsis for the film. \u201cNavigating grief, destructive tendencies, and creative expression, the artists\u2019 lives swirl together in a time and gender-queering ode to self-transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or as the IFFR website notes: \u201cIn this genre-defying \u2018audiovisual opera,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender-queered acid trip opera, anyone? Interested in an ode to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and silliness? How about a film exploring the experience of Iranian artists in exile? 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