Image under Construction. Revolution of Forms in Iranian Cinema before and after 1979
Wednesday, 2 Nov
Stadtkino Basel
18.00 – 20.30 Words of Welcome
(Ute Holl, Matthias Wittmann, Hemen Heidari)
Filmscreening with an Introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht
(Mashhad/London):
The Brick and the Mirror (Iran 1965, Ebrahim Golestan, 131’)
21.00 Get together
Thursday, 3 Nov
Stadtkino Basel
10.00 – 11.00 Ehsan Khoshbakht (Mashhad/London)
«Brick and Mirror» and the Rise of Fear and Trembling in Iranian
Arthouse Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Morad Montazami (London)
Cinema and Oil in Iran: Conflicting Narratives
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
eikones Forum
14.00 – 15.00 Sara Saljoughi (Toronto)
A New Form for a New People: The Problem of Collectivity in
the Iranian New Wave
15.00 – 15:.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30 Shiva Rahbaran (London):
New Iranian Cinemais Dead. Long Live New Iranian Cinema:
On the Future of Iranian Film
Stadtkino Basel
18.30 – 20.15 Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (Chicago)
View from Elsewhere
Filmscreening:
Jerry and Me (USA 2013, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, 38’)
Q&A with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
20.15 Apéro (Stadtkino Basel)
21.00 Filmscreening
Saless: Far From Home (USA/Iran 1998, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, 16’)
Introduction by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
Still Life (Iran 1974, Sohrab Shahid Saless, 93’)
Friday, 4 Nov
eikones Forum
10.00 – 11.00 Alena Strohmaier (Marburg)
Potentials and Obstacles of the Iranian Diaspora Media Space
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Niloufar Taghizadeh (Heidelberg/Teheran)
We Children of the Revolution (Work in Progress)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.30 Maryam Mohajer (London):
Why am I crying? A look into various elements in Iranian films that play on
our emotions in order to make us sad, shed a tear or cry our hearts out
14.30 – 15.30 Shahram Mokri (Teheran):
The Relation between Digital Camera and New Filmmaker Generation
in Iran
Stadtkino Basel
16.00 – 18.15 Jamsheed Akrami (Wayne, New Jersey)
A Defaced Cinema. Film Censorship in Iran
Filmscreening
A Cinema of Discontent (Iran 2013, R: Jamsheed Akrami, 86’)
Introduction and Q&A with Jamsheed Akrami
18.30 Filmscreening
Fish & Cat (Iran 2013, R: Shahram Mokri, 134’)
Introduction and Q&A with Shahram Mokri
21.30 Filmscreening
Films by Kamran Shirdel (Iran, 1965-1974, R: Kamran Shirdel)
Saturday, 5 Nov
eikones Forum
10.00 – 11.00 Majid Eslami (Teheran)
The Lake against the Forest: «Fish & Cat» (Shahram Mokri)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Mazyar Eslami (Teheran)
Poetics of Disintegration. On the Cinema of Asghar Farhadi
12.30 – 13.00 Conference Conclusion
Stadtkino Basel
15.15 Sneak Preview (Stadtkino Basel):
Filmfarsi (Iran 2016, Ehsan Khoshbakht, 105’)
Introduction and Q&A with Ehsan Khoshbakht
17.45 Filmscreening
Starless Dreams (Iran 2016, R: Mehrdad Oskouei, 76’)