Shirin Neshat on Directing 'Looking for Oum Kulthum' and Making Art in Exile
- TV Short
- 2018
- 6m
Artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat discusses her work and feature film "Looking for Oum Kulthum," based on the life of the legendary Egyptian singer. Seeping in layers of introspection, Look... Read allArtist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat discusses her work and feature film "Looking for Oum Kulthum," based on the life of the legendary Egyptian singer. Seeping in layers of introspection, Looking for Oum Kulthum explores the singer's life through the story of a Iranian filmmaker Mi... Read allArtist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat discusses her work and feature film "Looking for Oum Kulthum," based on the life of the legendary Egyptian singer. Seeping in layers of introspection, Looking for Oum Kulthum explores the singer's life through the story of a Iranian filmmaker Mitra (played by Neda Rahmanian), who, like Neshat, is living in exile outside of Iran and e... Read all