Shirin Neshat

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where th...

01 de jul. de 2009

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to cont...

16 de set. de 2022

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the...

11 de set. de 2017

Realizado para o 70º aniversário do Festival de Cinema de Veneza, setenta cineastas realizaram um curta-metragem entre 60 e 90 segundos sobre sua i...

28 de ago. de 2013

ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an...

26 de set. de 2013

Artist Shirin Neshat explains the film: "I was interested in how female singers are universally treated as objects of desire. At first, Cate looks ...

06 de set. de 2018

In Possessed, a seemingly mad woman in an Islamic village evokes questions of social acceptability.

19 de fev. de 2003

The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium. Wra...

15 de out. de 2005

On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be ac...

01 de jan. de 1998

The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recordin...

19 de out. de 2019

The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of wo...

29 de jul. de 1999

In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic Republ...

26 de jan. de 2023

This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.

19 de out. de 2019

Roja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect with Americ...

20 de ago. de 2016

Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance t...

10 de nov. de 2002

Two screens face each other in a dark room, only a bench off to the side interrupting the space between them. Settling into this interstitial expan...

10 de mar. de 1999