Not Far from Here: Recent Iranian Video Art | Broad Underground Film Series
Fri, Jan 17
|The Robin Theatre
Join Associate Professor of Film Kaveh Askari and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Parisa Ghaderi in exploring the diverse work of Iranian moving-image artists. FREE admission. 6:30 doors, 7PM.
Time & Location
Jan 17, 2020, 7:00 PM
The Robin Theatre, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910, USA
About The Event
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Not Far from Here: Recent Iranian Video Art | Broad Underground Film Series
Join Associate Professor of Film Kaveh Askari and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Parisa Ghaderi in exploring the diverse work of Iranian moving-image artists. Encompassing a variety of forms (animation, live action, archival), scales (from the intimate to the monumental), and affective ranges (from melancholy themes to playful or disturbing laughter), this survey emphasizes the cross-disciplinary and multi-media practices of contemporary Iranian video art. Audiences encounter work that expands out from professional graphic design, a city symphony made by a director of music videos, animations that form part of a painter’s oeuvre, and several works that are in conversation with the history of performance art and site-specific encounters.
Kaveh Askari is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Film Studies program and author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to…