Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles

Azadeh Fatehrad; Nikolaus Perneczky

Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles

Azadeh Fatehrad (Curator)
, Nikolaus Perneczky (Curator)

Research output: Practice-based/Artistic research › Exhibition

Abstract

The first retrospective of Iranian- German Filmmaker in the UK. The visionary filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998) was one of the great exiles of World Cinema. A seminal figure of the Iranian New Wave, Shahid Saless moved to West Germany in the mid-1970s, where this self-described ‟guest worker” created an unparalleled body of works for cinema and television: In meditative but searing images of everyday life, his slow-paced films tell simple stories that speak forcefully to the traumas of homelessness and displacement. They are more urgent than ever today.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 4 Nov 2017

Bibliographical note

Reviews: Tehran Times

Impact: During November 2017 - January 2018, I co-curated the programme Sohrab Shahid-Saless: Exiles in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London and Munich Film Museum, with support from Kingston University's Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, the Iran Heritage Foundation and Arts Council England. The programme was dedicated to visionary filmmaker Sohrab Shahid-Saless (1944-1998), a seminal figure of the Iranian New Wave. Shahid-Saless moved to West Germany in the mid-1970s, where as a self-described ‟guest worker”, he created an unparalleled body of works for cinema and television. In meditative but searing images of everyday life, his slow-paced films tell simple stories that speak forcefully to the traumas of homelessness and displacement.

Eleven screenings were held across three venues: Close-Up Centre for Film, Goethe-Institut London and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The programme then ended with a one-day conference which brought together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore Shahid-Saless' work as a conduit for wider engagement with exiled and displaced moving image practitioners: their ethics, aesthetics and modes of production, as well as their precarious lives and often uncertain legacy today. The project attracted an audience of more than 540 and was sold out. The international press coverage such as by the Tehran Times, BBC Persia and Iran International (TV interview) was invaluable in this respect.

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Anthropology

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