The Films of Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image

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Edited by Azadeh Fatehrad

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Sohrab Shahid Saless
Keywords: Sohrab Shahid Saless, Iran
Publishing date: 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Language: English

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Hardcover • 200 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-5639-5

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Book Presentation:
Examines the work of Iranian-German filmmaker, Sohrab Shadid-Saless, focusing on the themes of displacement and exile in his films
• Reflects on Sohrab Shahid-Saless' work and its implications for issues of creativity in diasporic conditions
• Provides a comprehensive account of Shahid-Saless’ work including his films and production methods, as well as personal letters that offer an insight into his process and thoughts
• Includes close readings of films including A Simple Event (1073), Still Life (1974), Utopia (1983), Coming of Age (1974) and Far From Home (1975)

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944–98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this – the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement – a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless’s films and production methods.

Outlining his affinity with celebrated directors like Chantal Akerman and Abbas Kiarostami, as well as visual artists like Romuald Karmakar, the contributors firmly position Shahid Saless as a filmmaker who speaks forcefully to the traumas of displacement and migration.
Contributors
• >Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University
• Christopher Gow, Independent
• Matthias Wittmann, University of Basel
• Majid Eslami, Independent
• Michelle Langford, UNSW, Sydney
• Azadeh Fatehrad, Kingston University
• Michael Mazière, University of Westminster
• Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery
• Dario Marchiori, Université Lyon 2
• Pierre d'Alancaisez, Independent
• Bert Schmidt, Independent
• Behrang Samsami, Independent
• Omid Abdollahi, Independent

Press Reviews:
A mystic poet of the hidden sights of our souls, Sohrab Shahid Saless was the filmmakers’ filmmaker.　　He achieved an almost cultic character in his homeland and his two Iranian films formed the DNA of Iranian New Wave before the Iranian Revolution of 1977-9 catapulted him into Europe and then the US where he died lonely and forlorn.　　Azadeh Fatehrad has given the world of cinema a priceless gift by editing a much overdue volume celebrating both phases of Shahid Saless’s Iranian and foreign filmmaking careers: in one he mapped the solitude of our souls, and in the other the exilic permanence of our very existence.– Hamid Dabashi, author of Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future

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