| Date & Time: | 12/3/2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | | Department: | Film and Media Studies | | Event Title: | Film and Video Center Presents: Ten | | Place: | McCormick Film Screening Room, HG 1070 |
| Introduction and Q&A with Prof. Nasrin Rahimieh, Director, Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, France/Iran/U.S.A., 2002, 91 min., 35mm In Farsi with English subtitles
Gender relations and the struggles of daily middle-class life are foregrounded in this video-film shot almost entirely inside an automobile during rush-hour traffic in the city of Tehran. A mixed cast of untrained and seasoned professional actors adds to the film’s aesthetic tensions and moments of surprise. Abbas Kiarostami’s cinema, while steeped in Persian poetic traditions, offers a new, authorial vista on Iranian modernity and its global reach. The film was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Co-sponsored by the UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture |
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