The Negarponti files
Friday, December 26, 2014
Creating a soundscape for one Bad City
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Ana Lily Amirpour 's Iranian Vampire Western really captured my imagination. It wasn't just the music, but also the industrial ...
Saturday, April 27, 2013
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Mobile Memories. The academic school year 2012-13 is over! I'm thrilled to have taught two re...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar win by Duke University Press.
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Duke University Press published this little post on Displaced Allegories and on Asghar Farhadi's Oscar win . So honored. For a review ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Women and Iranian Cinema
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My first Persian language interview for television: A bit bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I'd say, but here's my hopeful take on Irani...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Transforming consciousness: "When I move you move...just like that"
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The post-election crisis in Iran in 2009 ( #iranelection ) inspired many around the world in support of the Green Movement . A symbol of tha...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Video traces of our tribute to the silenced filmmaker Jafar Panahi at Asia Society
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My colleague Hamid Dabashi and I had the idea early this year to create, with the exquisite La Frances Hui of Asia Society in New York, a t...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Wind in Film: Kiarostami's Five (for the Iranian film Blogathon)
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I am reposting this short piece on Kiarostami and movement for the Iranian Blogathon Feb 21-27, 2011: I never tire of watching Abbas Kiaros...
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