East Looks West Looks East:
A Few Films from the Iranian Diaspora
Saturday March 7th, 7pm
Cosponsored by the Asian Arts Initiative
Hybridity by Shagha Ariannia (5 min, experimental) A reflection on the notion of citizenship and allegiance by an Iranian woman who immigrates to the US a week after September 11th.
Your Our Their Story by Fari Bradley (10 min, experimental) A stunning visual and audio layering of memories that pieces together a collective memory of a fixed notion of Iran that no longer exists.
Love Iranian-American Style by Tanaz Eshaghian (63 min, documentary) Sexual purity, money and a mother’s worries come together in this humorous guided tour of an American status-obsessed Iranian Jewish community.
Conversations With My Aunt by Aghigh Ebrahimi Bazaz (8 min, experimental) A unique visual reflection on divorce that renders a poetic critique on gender inequality in Iran.
Cusps by Sara Zia Ebrahimi (14 min, documentary/experimental) A visual journal chronicling experiences living as an urban nomad and Iranian immigrant in the post-industrial landscape of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
My Lichen(My Stone Flower) by Niknaz Tavakolian (5 min, experimental) A film exploring the dichtomy that exists between the filmmaker’s western and eastern selves and androgynous and feminine selves. The two can’t live without each other. And yet together, they live in a completely ironic existence.
