Presented by Berkeley Lecture
Series
The program will include the screening of the documentary film Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
followed by discussion with Nader Takmil Homayoun, Director, Visiting from
France.
Nader Takmil Homayoun was born in
Paris and studied filmmaking in
France at l'École Nationale Supéneure
des Metiers de l'Image et du son (FEMIS). He has directed several short films
including Cache-cache (1995), Autour de Mortin (1997), Les
Fleurs de l'Algérien (1998) and C'est pour bientot (2000).
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution (2006) is his first
feature-length documentary.
"This documentary explores Iranian
cinema through a compelling blend of archival footage, excerpts from
representative and landmark Iranian films, and interviews with Iranian
filmmakers, film critics and film historians. It shows the struggles
against censorship and traditional cinematic formulas by such pioneers as Bahram
Beyzai, Sohrab Shahid Saless and Parviz Kimiavi and pre- and post-Islamic
revolutionary 'new wave' filmmakers such as Amir Naderi, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad,
Dariush Mehrjui, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi and Abbas
Kiarostami.
IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC
REVOLUTION reveals
the changing social functions of Iranian cinema and the artistic struggle of its
filmmakers."
Screenings took
place at:
- 2006 Toronto
International Film Festival
- 2006 International Documentary Festival
Amsterdam
- 2006
Rio de Janeiro International Film
Festival
- 2006
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Date: Sunday May 13,
2007
Time: 4:00
PM
Place: 2040 Valley Life Science
Building
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/large_map.html
Presentation in
Persian
Film in Persian with English
Subtitles
Suggested Donation:
$10.00
No donation expected from
students
Further questions may be directed
to: berkeleylectures@yahoo.com
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