Being Hassan for Morocco
byA photographer, designer, and filmmaker, Hassan Hajjaj is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists, sometimes called his native country’s answer to Andy Warhol. Entirely…
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Illusionist Painter
byRob Gonsalves is a 55-year-old Canadian of Portuguese descent who paints scenes that fill in the space somewhere in between everyday activities and hallucinations….
Iranian Homosexuals in an Album
byBorn to Iranian parents but growing up with Swiss upbringing gave Laurence Rasti critical mind that has a flavors of both culture. In her project “There Are…
The Loss of High Culture
byThis loss of high culture is not an American phenomenon alone. English intellectual and artistic life has fallen off greatly since the generation of…
Iranian Living Room
byMiddle East has been the center of attention for the last decade or so not only by anthropologists or sociologists or even economists but…
Iranian New Wave Cinema – Fat Shaker
byThe Fat Shaker, a movie written, produced and directed by Mohammad Shirvani, literally does what its title suggests: it shakes. Shirani’s intentional use of…
At the End of 8th Street
byWith her brother on the death row for murder, Niloofar, Taraneh Alidoosti, has only three days, to come up with blood money, Diya, to…
Parviz a Film About Iranian's Doomed Future to Come
byA darkly comic depiction of family and community dysfunction, and directed by Majid Barzegar, Parviz, portrays the world of a fifty year old man,…