Expressing the Inexpressible: Shirin Neshat

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Abstract

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.

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1 videodisc (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Captions and transcript available through Films on Demand.

Muslim Women: Two Worlds (5:13) --
Neshat: Merging Cinema and Visual Arts (2:47) --
Neshat's "Women of Allah" Series (2:49) --
Neshat's "Rapture" (8:07) --
Shirin Neshat: "Turbulent" (4:45) --
Madness: Neshat's "Turbulent" (3:52) --
Shirin Neshat: "Fervor" (7:45) --
Neshat and the World of Filmmaking (3:57).

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