Afterimage: Kamran Shirdel

3/1/14

Renowned Iranian filmmaker Kamran Shirdel visits BAM/PFA during his first visit to the U.S. to present four of his remarkable short films. He will be in conversation with the acclaimed scholar of Iranian cinema, Hamid Naficy, author most recently of A Social History of Iranian Cinema.

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- Saturday, March 1 5:30 pm
Kamran Shirdel (Iran, 1965–80). Kamran Shirdel in conversation with Hamid Naficy. We are honored to host Shirdel during his first visit to the U.S., and to present four of his remarkable short films known as “The Four Blacks,” which influenced a generation of contemporary Iranian filmmakers. (83 mins)

Afterimage: Kamran Shirdel

3/1/14

Renowned Iranian filmmaker Kamran Shirdel studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinemotografia in Rome, birthplace of neorealism, a heritage that is evident in his nuanced observations of everyday existence. Due to his focus on taboo topics such as poverty, prostitution, and prison life and his experiments with cinematic language, a number of his films were confiscated and banned by the Shah's government. We are honored to host Shirdel during his first visit to the U.S., and to present four of his remarkable short films known as “The Four Blacks,” which influenced a generation of contemporary Iranian filmmakers. He will be in conversation with the acclaimed scholar of Iranian cinema, Hamid Naficy, author most recently of A Social History of Iranian Cinema and a professor at Northwestern University.

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Support for Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation is made possible by generous funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association®. We wish to express our gratitude to Sepideh Khosrowjah who coordinated Shirdel's U.S. tour, and to the 2013 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art and the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University for helping make his visit possible.

Afterimage: Kamran Shirdel

3/1/14

Past Films

The Films of Kamran Shirdel