Pulp Farsi

Director: David Vee, 2013, Australia, 56 minutes, Documentary

Pulp Farsi is not a documentary about politics and religion. It’s is a film about the Persian psyche! Australian filmmaker David Vee spent 2 1/2 years living in the Islamic Republic of Iran as an expat. In Iran ‘the powers that be’ deem it illegal to film on the streets and this is severely enforced! Hence, to obtain his story he used a small hand-held camcorder and filmed Guerrilla Style. If there was one country, where the word dichotomy had to be used, it would be Iran. Paradoxically religion is everywhere, yet nowhere. Pulp Farsi illustrates the bizarre reality of this mystifying and polemic nation. David Vee had a wild ride through Iran, and this is Pulp Farsi!

David Vee

David Vee is a filmmaker, author, musician, born in Sydney. David was lead actor in the Tehran produced short film The Silver Trip, 2011. From February 2003 until July 2006 he lived and worked in Pakistan, writing his first book: A Pakistani House Husband (the beauty & the chaos). He then moved to Thailand for 3 years where he made his first short film. From July 2009 till January 2012 he lived in Iran. In the 80’s David was in numerous Sydney bands, including experimental group Idiom Flesh, who were on the first 2JJ Live at the Wireless album.