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Category Archive for 'Visual and Performing Arts'

Avisheh Mohsenin gave a wonderful presentation about Pasfarda and its latest activities. For full details, please see the attached PDF she has created for us. You can also download her talk by clicking on this link or by using the player below.
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Dear all,
Prof. Saeedvafa has graciously allowed us to record the discussion that took place after the screening of her film, “Jerry and Me”. You can listen to it using the player below or download the MP3 here.

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Last week, Dr. Farrokh Asadi gave us a short introduction to his film, “Judith”, an adaptation of Brecht’s “The Jewish Wife”. You can listen to his presentation in the player below.

Download the mp3 here. Plus, you can see the Director’s notes to the film in English and in Persian.
Many thanks to Dr. Asadi for his […]

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For those who attended Barbara Scharres’ excellent talk earlier today – and for those who missed out! – we encourage you to go to the Gene Siskel Film Center over the next couple weeks, and to watch some of the great Iranian films that they’re showing. You can find details about the Center’s Festival of […]

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Ms. Torabi gave a thought-provoking talk earlier today about the film Nader and Simin: A Separation. Although today’s discussion was not recorded, you can read the text of Ms. Torabi’s review of the film, which was originally published in the journal Baran, at the link below.
http://www.iran-women-solidarity.net/spip.php?article2536

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Barbara Scharres, the Director of Programming at Gene Siskel Film Center, discuss Iranian film and the upcoming Festival of Films from Iran. Her talk is in English.

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رادیو در ایران امروز همراه با فیلم /
گزارشی مستند از فستیوال مونولوگ خوانی توسط صداپیشگان رادیوی ایران/
کار محمد مجدزاده
“Radio in Iran” along with a film by Mohammad Majdzadeh
Mohammad Majdzadeh was born in Tehran-Iran in 1973. After high school he studied Electrical Engineering. He began his artistic career in 1983 by entering Iran’s Art and Literature […]

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The members of Maqam, a Jewish ensemble from Bukhara, talk about their music and give us a short performance. You can listen here.

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Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker, a teacher at the Department of Film and Video, Columbia College, Chicago, and Artistic Consultant of the Iranian Film Festival, Film Center, Chicago since 1989. You can listen to her talk here.

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