External | Goodman Gallery: Shirin Neshat Online film programme June 20 to June 24, 2020
Looking for Oum Kulthum, 2017, film still
Goodman Gallery is pleased to present a Shirin Neshat online film programme, featuring a selection of preeminent films from the artist's career. Over the course of five days, different films from Neshat's oeuvre will be made available for 24 hours to view on the Goodman Gallery's online programme platform.
Neshat's films centre on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. The films chosen for this online film festival reflect these themes and vary in length and form. Bookending the festival are Neshat's feature films, Women without Men and Looking for Oum Kulthum. These are shown alongside a selection of short films including her Dreamers trilogy, first shown at Goodman Gallery in 2016, as well as several dual-channel films.
Biography
Neshat (b. 1957, Qazvin, Iran) completed her education in the USA in 1974. Five years later, the Islamic Revolution prevented her from returning to her home country for almost twenty years. Neshat’s personal experiences as a Muslim woman in exile have informed her practice in which she employs photography, video installation, cinema and performance to explore political structures that have shaped the history of Iran and other Middle Eastern nations. Neshat portrays the alienation of women in repressive Muslim societies interrogating the role reserved for women Islamic value systems. In her practice, she employs poetic imagery to engage with the universal themes of gender and society, the individual and the collective, and the dialectical relationship between past and present, through the lens of her experiences of belonging and exile. Neshat was the recipient of the Golden Lion Award - the First International Prize - at the 48th Venice Biennial (1999) for Turbulent. In addition, her film Women Without Men received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.
Day 1: 20 June, 2020
Women Without Men, 2009
Day 2: 21 June, 2020
Illusions and Mirrors, 2013
Sarah, 2016
Roja, 2016
Day 3: 22 June, 2020
Turbulent, 1998
Rapture, 1999
Soliloquy, 1999
Day 4: 23 June, 2020
Tooba, 2002
The Last Word, 2003
Day 5: 24 June, 2020
Looking for Oum Kulthum, 2017