On the Tenderness of Men is a speculative cinematic writing on architecture, war, and displacement. It traces the fragmented microhistory of Helsinki’s 1968 Rock Church and its architects’ exclusion from Finnish modernism. Ventriloquizing narrators, the film blurs time, place, and identities, to consider the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.
Minou Norouzi
Minou Norouzi is a filmmaker and writer. Her work sits in the folds of the artist’s film, documentary and essay film traditions. Her writing appears in academic presses and art publications. She formally co-organised the Sheffield Fringe artists’ moving image festival and is currently a member of the Journal of Visual Culture editorial collective.