Born in 1957, Shirin Neshat ( شیرین نشاط ) is an Iranian film director, producer, actress, writer, photographer and video artist who lives in New York City. She was brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran before leaving Iran in the late 1970s to study art in Los Angeles and San Francisco where she completed her BA, MA and MFA. Influenced by the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, she has directed several video/audio installations that have been showcased around th
...e world. Though Neshat is most prominently known for her short films, she made her feature film directorial debut in 2009 with Women Without Men and won the Silver Lion and Unicef Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice Film Festival. In 2013, she was a member of the jury at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.Shirin Neshat has been a Director in some movies:
Turbulent is about that On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be accepted and adored. On the opposite wall, a woman in a black chador stands silently throughout his song. Then something stunning happens… In this film Shirin Neshat collaborates with Bahman Soltani, Ghasem Ebrahimian, Shoja Azari.
Women without Men is about that Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship. In this film Shirin Neshat collaborates with Shabnam Tolouei, Mina Ghoreishi, Ahmad Hamed, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shoja Azari, Bijan Daneshmand, Martin Gschlacht, Shahbaz Noshir, Saeed Oveysi, Philippe Bober, Jerome De Noirmont, Barbara Gladstone, Peter Hermann, Barbara Habe, Oleg Kokhan, Susanne Marian, Heirich Mis, Erwin M. Schimdt, Andreas Schreitmuller, Joerg E.Schweizer, Holger Stern, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Isabell Wiegand, George Cragg, Patrick Lambertz, Christof Schertenleib, Julia Wiedwald, Orsolya Toth, Navid Navid, Essa Zahir, Tahmoures Tehrani, Abbas Bakhtiari, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Farhad Payar, Shahrnoush Parsipour, Mitra Zahedi, Mina Azarian, Nader Farman, Youssef Nabil, Natasha Chudyk, Aziz Hattab, Soussan Azarin, Fadma Hammou Maadini, Fouad Saad Allah, Khalid Elwadi, Steven Henry Madoff, Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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