Iran - Nosrat Nosratian gallery image
Nosrat Nosratian: Fall, 2009. Video, 6:56 min, image courtesy the artist and OtherIS.

In his videos, Nosrat Nosratian engages duration - of the everyday and that of existence - via a time element of a moving image, often in a non-narrative or repetitive sequences, such as channel surfing in front of a TV, or accumulations of abstract or natural elements into clusters. If spectator chooses to submit her time to the video duration, this suspended narrative unravels in a sudden coda - an intervention of a decisive, telling moment into a non-descript sequence of time, a blissful fall...