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Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles
Conference/Film Retrospective
Conference/Film Retrospective
SOHRAB SHAHID SALESS
Date
4 November 2017 – 19 January 2018
Venue
Various locations, please see programme
Description
This is the first UK retrospective of Iranian-German artist Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998). Shahid Saless was a visionary filmmaker and 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.
Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles is curated by Dr Azadeh Fatehrad and Nikolaus Perneczky in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London and in collaboration with the Munich Film Museum. With support from the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University; Iran Heritage Foundation; Arts Council England; and partner venues Close-Up and the ICA.
Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles is curated by Dr Azadeh Fatehrad and Nikolaus Perneczky in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London and in collaboration with the Munich Film Museum. With support from the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University; Iran Heritage Foundation; Arts Council England; and partner venues Close-Up and the ICA.
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