Collection of Short Films by Shirin Neshat

A collection of short films by Shirin Neshat will be screened.
Neshat’s provocative photographs, videos and multimedia installations have resonated with the curators of many major international art exhibitions, including the XLVIII Venice Biennale,  where she won the top prize in 1999. Her first feature film, Women Without Men, tells the stories of four women struggling to escape oppression in Tehran. It won her the Silver Lion for best  director at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. "Walk into a Shirin Neshat film installation and the images seize you: big, memorable,  physically beautiful, exploring the role of women in Islamic society in terms of cinematic poetry, so that even the stifling chador becomes powerfully expressive." The New York Times, July 15, 2002. The work of Neshat addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women experience in contemporary Islamic societies.
 
List of Short Films To Be Screened
1) “Turbulent” 1998
2-channel video installation
B/W, 16mm film
16mm B/W film
9min and 31sec
 
2) “Rapture”, 1999
2-channel video installation
B/W, 16mm film
12min and 26 sec
 
3) “Fervor” 2000
2-channel video installation
B/W, 16mm film
10 min and 11 sec
 
4) “Passage”, 2001
Single-channel projection
Color, 35mm film
13 min and 24 sec
 
6) “Tooba”, 2002
2-channel video projection
Color, 35mm film
12min and 44 sec
 
7) “OverRuled”
Single-channel projection
B/W, video
10 min and 17 sec
 
Total Minutes: 67 min, 53 sec
Language : Persian with English Subtitle