A girl is being projected on a screen while a pair of disembodied lips (“God”) rambles about sex. At the same time, a boy and a man look at the girl. As the scene unfolds, the girl reaches out of the projector screen, takes hold of the male figures, and makes them disappear between her legs.
Manual Man follows a progression of men whose bodies transform into furniture and appliances after reading various instruction manuals.
Four men watch a projected image: a man smoothly moving up and down three sets of escalators. A gang of identical men emerge at the top of the stairs, and start to push, chase, or trip him. He tumbles and falls, and starts to fall apart, losing limbs here and there.
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While a women-led revolution preludes a new era of change in Iran, the political unrest that hangs heavy over the fight tells just one side of the story. Among the horrors and means of control opposed through protest, the situation spotlights women united by a passionate connection to their country and their culture – and the possibility of an independent future for the women and girls still to come.
