I’m really enjoying collaborating on this project with someone with such a strong background in sculpture and painting. Irit is pushing me to actually experiment with the images and build layers of texture and color with them the way you would with a painting. I also appreciate her ability to not be concerned with the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Samples from current film project
Posted in Creative Process, Video Blog, tagged Ben Franklin Bridge, Experimental Film on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Screen Your Working Internationally: Rolling Call For Submissions
Posted in Call for Submissions, tagged Call for Submissions, Cape Town TV, independent film, South Africa on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My girl Shelley Barry is working her magic back at her home in South Africa and heading up programming for Cape Town’s community tv station: Cape Town TV. Its a non-profit organization that screens great alternative and independent films.
She asked me to help out and be “an international acquisitions volunteer” to source content. So here [...]
Getting Curatorial: Call for Submissions
Posted in Call for Submissions, tagged film, independent film, Iran, iranian diaspora, Philadelphia on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please help me spread the word! I’m curating a series of film screenings of films from the Iranian Diaspora this spring and am promoting the call for submissions.
The Iranian Diaspora Film Series offers an opportunity for people of Iranian descent to share their worldviews and perspective on both their place of origin and place of [...]
Strategy vs. Catharsis: Calling “Allu Akbar” Outside of Fox News
Posted in Political Commentary, tagged community organizing, Gaza, Israel, military spending, Palestine, Philadelphia, protests on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t been to a protest in a year and a half. The last time I went was with my friend Sham in 2006 when conflicts between Israel and Lebanon were hightened. So it’s no surprise that I ended up at the protest against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza with her and her son again yesterday. [...]
Kermit, Ajax and Israel
Posted in Political Commentary, Video Blog, tagged Iran, Israel, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., Mossadegh, Operation Ajax, Palestine on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Irit and I have made a commitment to do a short video blog every other week and share it with each other. It’s like doing weekly quick sketches for drawing/painting–not getting hung up with quality, but just keep ourselves in motion with creati
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by sZe with a [...]
US-Iran Foriegn Policy Predictions: A Chat with my Dad
Posted in Political Commentary, tagged Ahmadinejad, Gaza, Hilary Clinton, Iran, US-Iran Foriegn Policy on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My father is a news junkie. He monitors pretty much every source of Iranian, American, and Iranian-American dialogue online and on the airwaves–fueled by an intense desire, shared by so many people exiled in his generation, to see the end of the Islamic Republic.
So, with Clinton’s hearings this past week and Iran’s ever increasing presence [...]
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