Black Rabbit, White Rabbit Blu-ray
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Posted April 17, 2026 09:44 PM by Webmaster
Deaf Crocodile is preparing a Blu-ray release of Shahram Mokri's Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025). The label will issue Limited and Standard Blu-ray editions later this year.
The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during the production of a film by a director named "Shahram" – already blurring the lines between film and reality.
Guns play a strange and mystical part in BLACK RABBIT: on the film set, we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION). This production marks his 40th, and he's paranoid he won't get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed in an explosion on his 40th film.) "I've discovered something important: there's a revolver here hell-bent on revenge," he murmurs.
The other major storyline involves Sara (Hasti Mohammaï), who is kept as a prisoner inside her house by her husband while she recovers from a near-fatal car accident. She's wrapped in bandages like Elsa Lanchester in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and gives off a foul odor from her wounds. Slowly, fantastical elements begin to bleed through, like waking dreams intruding on the conscious world: an enormous prop Coffee Cup moves about the set by itself; inanimate objects talk amongst themselves about the Italian gun that's arrived to take revenge; and an aspiring actress gives an audition in which she does magic, causing a white rabbit and a black rabbit to appear. "The magic of time weaves together apparently unrelated events. A story of women seeking to escape their cocooned lives. A story of objects possessing a soul, deciding when and where to play a role. A quest to make dreams come true, linking these stories together thanks to the wonder of cinema." – Shahram Mokri. In Tajiki and Russian with English subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during the production of a film by a director named "Shahram" – already blurring the lines between film and reality.
Guns play a strange and mystical part in BLACK RABBIT: on the film set, we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION). This production marks his 40th, and he's paranoid he won't get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed in an explosion on his 40th film.) "I've discovered something important: there's a revolver here hell-bent on revenge," he murmurs.
The other major storyline involves Sara (Hasti Mohammaï), who is kept as a prisoner inside her house by her husband while she recovers from a near-fatal car accident. She's wrapped in bandages like Elsa Lanchester in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and gives off a foul odor from her wounds. Slowly, fantastical elements begin to bleed through, like waking dreams intruding on the conscious world: an enormous prop Coffee Cup moves about the set by itself; inanimate objects talk amongst themselves about the Italian gun that's arrived to take revenge; and an aspiring actress gives an audition in which she does magic, causing a white rabbit and a black rabbit to appear. "The magic of time weaves together apparently unrelated events. A story of women seeking to escape their cocooned lives. A story of objects possessing a soul, deciding when and where to play a role. A quest to make dreams come true, linking these stories together thanks to the wonder of cinema." – Shahram Mokri. In Tajiki and Russian with English subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Three ultra-rare early Mokri short films:
- The Dragonfly Storm (2002, 15m)
- Limits of the Circle (2005, 15m)
- Ando-C (2007, 15m)
- New audio commentary by film programmer and critic Tori Potenza
- New visual essay "The Maze: Entrances and Exits in Black Rabbit, White Rabbit" by Stephen Broomer (13m)
- New wrap artwork by Beth Morris
- Deluxe Edition Bonus Content:
- Hard slipcase featuring new artwork by Brian Level
- 60-page illustrated book
- New essay by Walter Chaw
- New essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- New essay by Michelle Kisner
- REGION-A "LOCKED"
