god party

God Party is a series of looped films merging into a 'mega-loop,' each new segment seamlessly joining with the last, almost echoing the unbroken structure of the blockchain. The films were all shot in the Warner Brothers Studio Backlot in 2018, with a giant, ambitiously designed robotic rig (the 'Titan-X', built for the making of this piece before being retired for its complexity). After two years in postproduction, God Party is now presented as a high resolution LED wall installation.

Having waited over a decade for technology to catch up to the scale of his ambition, Farahmand was able to move the camera through the environment with uncompromising control and precise repetition.

Saam Farahmand, Iranian-British video artist and film maker, was born in 1979, the year of the Iranian revolution. Farahmand took the same Goldsmiths Fine Art course as several Turner Prize winners including Steve McQueen. He worked predominantly as a video artist and was selected by Bloomberg's New Contemporaries, before transitioning fully into pop culture and becoming the first director of color to win 'Best Director' at the MVA's in the UK and being named 'one of the most influential music video directors of his generation' by The Guardian and Times magazine.

He has worked with artists such as Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, M.I.A., Mark Ronson, late rapper Juice Wrld, and the late designer Lee (Alexander) McQueen, whom he encouraged to make his first narrative film before his untimely passing.