Docunight Calgary presents a screening of:

Monir

Thursday, May 28, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
Cassio A/B Room, MacEwan Conference & Event Centre - 402 Collegiate Boulevard NW, Calgary
$10 General Admission (Online or Door)

You are invited to the screening of Iranian Documentaries:

Monir (2014) is a documentary about the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Farmanfarmaian pioneered new forms of geometric mirror works in the 1970s, creating an artistic language informed by traditional Iranian craft and her formative years spent in New York. The film explores a range of factors that have made her one of the most innovative and influential artists of the Middle East: from her method of constructing mirror mosaics to political changes in her own country and her subsequent migration to New York. Monir paints a portrait of an unstoppable artist who returned to Tehran in 2005 to reestablish a thriving studio practice. Now in her 90s, Monir proves to be as vibrant and creative as ever.

Directed by: Bahman Kiarostami | Produced by: Leyla Fakhr | 2014 | 54 min | Persian and English with English subtitles

Bahman Kiarostami (born 1978) lives and works in Tehran, as a documentary film director, editor and cinematographer. He made his first documentary ‘Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design’ in 1996. Most of his documentaries focus on valuing and legitimizing processes in art, but also cover the visible yet obscured and unnoticed details which define Iran’s post revolutionary visual culture.

Docunight Calgary

Facilitated by Persian Gulf Foundation/Persian Gulf Club

Iran via Documentaries • Last Wednesday of every Month • San Francisco • Los Angeles • Vancouver • New York • Calgary • Toronto • Washington DC • San Diego 

Every last Wednesday of every month, Docunight screens a documentary about, around, or in Iran, or made by Iranians. In collaboration with several local organizations and groups, the screenings will take place on the same night across several cities in North America.

All films will have English subtitles. 

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