This interview is published in partnership with Underline Magazine.For her second film, after adapting for the screen the controversial Iranian novel Women Without Men in 2009, the New York-based visual artist and independent filmmaker Shirin Neshat has navigated the waters of filmic biography—looking at the life of legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum. Neshat’s film, however, approaches the world-famed star indirectly, by means of a framing narrative, featuring a woman director who is a shooting a biopic about Kulthum. With a fluid structure which intertwines the fictional film, life on the set and the director’s dreams and visions, Looking for Oum Kulthum is a treatise on cinematic historiography and the doubts and fears that haunt a female artist.Notebook: Can you walk us through the genesis of this film? What made you pick this Egyptian singer as your subject? Shirin Neshat: After Women Without Men I developed...
- 10/10/2017
- MUBI
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