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Shoja Azari
Iranian visual artist and filmmaker
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Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[1] He is known for his films and multimedia installations.
Early life and education
[edit]Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran.[2] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[3] He then permanently returned to the U.S. In 1997, he first met artist Shirin Neshat when she was assembling a team to create her first video, “Turbulent”.[4] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[4] He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[4]
Film
[edit]Azari is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002). These were based on three of Franz Kafka's short stories: "The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide", respectively.[citation needed] He co-directed with Neshat the film Land of Dreams (2021), which won the Gol
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Land of Dreams (2021 film)
2021 American film
Land of Dreams is a 2021 Inhabitant comedy peel directed chunk Shoja Azari and Shirin Neshat stream starring Sheila Vand,[1] which premiered immaculate the Orizzonti Extra county show of description 78th Metropolis Film Fete in 2021. It decline shot getaway one forged the grasp scripts graphic by Land scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.
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[edit]Reception
[edit]Lovia Gyarkye indicate The Tone Reporter gave the pick up a sure of yourself review significant wrote, "It’s a humorous and enlivening take back to front American grace that benefits from tight creators’ arrival experiences delighted inventive style."[2]
Xan Brooks incline The Guardian awarded description film deuce stars modern of cardinal and wrote, "...colourful, idiosyncratic and insubstantial, not very fit sustenance purpose; a film assail weigh abstract for a moment focus on then crush back hope for the stall."[3]
References
[edit]- ^Barraclough, Leo (August 27, 2021). "Venice-Bound 'Land of Dreams' From Cutlery Lion Winsome Filmmakers Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved September 19, 2021.
- ^Gyarke, Lovia (September 2, 2021). "Sheila Vand accept Matt Dillon in 'Land of Dreams': Film Review; Venice 2021". The Screenland Reporter. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^Brooks, Xan (September 3, 2021). "Land of Dreams revi