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An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin
Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women
throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological
dimensions of women’s experiences. In this program, she explicates her haunting
video installations Shadow Under the Web; Turbulent; Soliloquy;
Rapture; and Fervor, as well as her seminal series of still
images, The Women of Allah. In addition, she discusses being both an
insider and an outsider in two different cultures, the narrative power of
cinema, sexual taboos in Islamic society, the tension between traditional and
modern values, the nature of expression when expression itself is forbidden,
and the quiet strength and bravery of women that prompts them to rebel against
repression.
A Shirin Neshat/Film at the Fringes of Experience film. 42 minutes.
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