Taha Heydari
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Taha Heydari as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Taha Heydari received a BFA in Painting from the Art University of Tehran (2010) and a diploma in painting from the School of Visual Arts in Tehran, Iran. He then received an MFA from LeRoy E. Hoffberger…
Anahita Bagheri
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Anahita Bagheri as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Anahita Bagheri is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Her art is about her lived experience and memories as a woman artist in Iran and New York. She gives her own narratives mixed with Persian art, mythology, literature,…
Ramyar Vala
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Ramyar Vala as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Ramyar Vala (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living and working in New York. His early practice was as a graphic designer in Tehran. Though still grounded in design and fabrication, his research tracks…
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Sara Z. Meghdari as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Sara Z. Meghdari is an Iranian-American Interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Meghdari holds a MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Communication from the University of…
Sara Z. Meghdari
Parisa Azadi
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Parisa Azadi as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Parisa Azadi is a Canadian visual journalist with a keen interest in history and conflict, memory and displacement. She is based between Tehran, Iran and Dubai where she covers the region, and is bilingual in English and Persian. For…
February 2023
Sahra Mani, Yalda Afsah, Ginan Seidl, Lida Abdul, Aidin Halalzadeh, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Sepideh Salarvand
Aidin Halalzadeh, Sepideh Salarvand
, 2021
, 52 min
Lowland is an intimate portrait of a community of undocumented migrant Afghan children, living and working as garbage collectors in the margins of Tehran. Over the course of five years, the two filmmakers, Sepideh and Aidin, documented their encounters with the children first as ethnographers and volunteer teachers, and later as filmmakers. The film is…
November 2022
Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, Saeed Dehghani
AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Special Projects Curator Featuring works by Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz and Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, and Saeed Dehghani. AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY presents films made in the past two decades that share perspectives from communities on the periphery of contemporary Iranian society. With…
Shadi Harouni
, 2017
, 17 min
Synopsis: Set in an isolated black pumice quarry in the Kurdish regions of Iran, I Dream the Mountain is Still Whole follows a lone figure, a Marxist dissident and former school teacher, recounting his struggles, hopes, and ideals as a committed revolutionary, all the while carefully negotiating the moonscape terrain of an everchanging mountain. The film is…
