An In-Person Screening Event
BILLY WILDER THEATER – HAMMER MUSEUM
Los Angeles
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN & LOOKING FOR OUM KULTHUM
September 23, 2022
Born in Iran and based in New York, visual artist Shirin Neshat has explored the dualities of diasporic identity as an Iranian woman living in the West across multiple disciplines, including photography, video, theater and film for over 30 years. The focus of a recent career retrospective at The Broad (Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again), Neshat has been featured in solo exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world with her works included in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, to name a few.
Intimately linked to her photography and video work is Neshat’s work as a filmmaker. In each of her three feature films to date, directed with her regular collaborator Shoja Azari, Neshat employs the big screen canvas to extend and deeply narrativize her representations of women contesting systems of oppression and control in a variety of spheres.
The Archive is thrilled to present two Shirin Neshat feature films Women without Men (2009) and Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017), both of which premiered at the Venice Film Festival at the Billy Wilder Theater.
This screening is part of Looking Within, Not Without: The Films of Shirin Neshat at the Hammer.
Farhang Foundation is a proud community partner.
For more information, please check the below link:
Shirin Neshat: Double Feature Screening-Film Screening – Farhang.org