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03-Feb-2010 (2 comments)
Neshat’s prominent style of magic realism combined with strong elements of female melodrama unfolds a strong tale about societal turmoil and personal nightmares from five female perspectives. I consider Iran as the fifth character, which is highly misunderstood, mistreated, and even raped at the end by fundamentalist forces, very much like the lives of other four characters. Iran in this era stands on the verge of a profound transformation from a poor developing country to an independent wealthy nation with a democratic government>>>
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18-Jan-2010 (one comment)
For a Moment Freedom tells the story of three groups of heroes, a communist family with a son, two young hip friends with their cousin’s two children, and a simple Kurdish man and an Iranian man, who become good friends after living in Turkey for too long. They all reside at a rundown hotel in the ghettos of Ankara. They share the same daily schedule: going to the UN headquarter, standing in the line for 8 hours to talk to someone in charge and being told to go back home and come back the next day>>>
HAITI
16-Jan-2010 (3 comments)
As, at the safety of our living rooms, we witness the story on magnitude of devastation in Haiti unfolds, it is also an opportunity for us to bring this crisis down at our personal level. I see this is as an opportunity to reflect on life, all aspects of it – our family, friends, country, world at large…and the fragility of it. How one can be a help? That is an immediate and constant question that perhaps no matter how we try to bury it behind forgotten minds – it does persist>>>
EXILES
09-Jan-2010 (20 comments)
The grand, wrought iron gates of the Polish wartime cemetery have not been opened for decades and are permanently padlocked. Entrance can be gained using a smaller, more prosaic, gate at the western end of the compound. As with the other Polish war cemeteries in Iran, this site is cared for by the local Armenian community, a service for which it deserves a deep debt of gratitude. Arrived with a bouquet of red and white flowers in my arms, I am welcomed at the door by the caretaker, Mr. Reza Moghadam, a slim, gentle, self-effacing man who leads me leisurely through what looks like a secret garden rather than a graveyard>>>
NAMJOO
26-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
آلبوم جدید محسن نامجو مثل همیشه ساختار گریز و گستاخ است. آثار این مجموعه مانند گذشته چیدمانی کانسپتوالیستی از شعر و موسیقی می باشد که درک زیبائی شناختی آنها تنها با نگاهی علمی و بی طرفانه بر موسیقی، شعر، هنرپیشگی و آوازخوانی امکان پذیر است. رویکردی خارج از ساختارهای سنتی با دریافتی خردگرایانه و امروزی از میراث های فرهنگی ایران و جهان همراه با نگاهی فردگرایانۀ هنری در وصف حال و روز ما ایرانیان>>>
REVIEW
13-Dec-2009 (8 comments)
I heard a lot about an Iranian film, About Elly, and I decided to watch it. This is the general plot as far as I could make it. The film is about three married couples who travel to northern Iran with their children. A young man named Ahmad and a young woman, called Elly, accompany the group on this trip. Ahmad is visiting Iran for a short time, and Elly works in a day care where Sepideh’s daughter attends. Sepideh has invited both Elly and Ahmad so that they meet and hopefully get married. Elly wants to go back home after a day as planned, but Sepideh prevents her from leaving. Shortly after, Elly disappears>>>
ROCK & BLUES
26-Nov-2009
عبدی بهروانفر: آلبوم "کخئووکلخت" آلبوم دوم من وگروه ماد است که ضبطش از سال1387 شروع شد واخیراٌ مراحل میکس و مستر و چیدمان ترکها تمام شد. آلبوم 8 ترک داره بعضی از اونا قبلا با گروه اجرا شده که البته دراین آلبوم تنظیم وسازبندی جدیدی دارند. آلبوم در سبک فولک راک و تلفیقی از سازهای اصلی راک، بلوز و سازهای محلی خراسان است. یکی از بخشی های بزرگ استان خراسان اهل چناران -عاشق علی اکبر بهاری- در این آلبوم قشمه، سرنا و کمانچه زد. تلفیق سازهای بلوز، راک و سازی مثل قشمه - از استخوان بال عقاب ساخته میشه با قدمتی بیش از4000 سال>>>
RE-ORIENT
24-Nov-2009 (4 comments)
Whenever I enjoy a politically themed movie or play, I wonder if solidarity with the viewpoint isn’t clouding my judgment of the aesthetics. Is the artist speaking my heart, or is my heart speaking for the artist? Often it is a mix of both, to be honest. But one of the works I watched last Saturday at Golden Thread’s Festival of short Middle East plays shattered the silly question at the outset. Naomi Wallace’s No Such Cold Thing is a spellbinding play that powers its way beyond “friends don’t let friends invade Afghanistan.”>>>
ANAR
17-Nov-2009
This is the time of year when the days grow shorter and darker. It's also the time that my son Niko and I love because it is the season of pomegranates and persimmons. We had the pleasure of partaking in our pomegranate pleasure at the annual Wolfskill Experimental Orchard's fall pomegranate and persimmon tasting day -- which my son has dubbed the "Pomegranate Festival." This year, in addition to going to the actual festival, I volunteered the day before at the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository where more than 200 varieties of wild and cultivated pomegranates (largely from Western and Central Asia) are grown, studied, and preserved>>>
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