{"id":348190,"date":"2018-02-14T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-iranian-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T07:58:45","slug":"an-iranian-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-iranian-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iranian Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99722\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-99722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Tehran-Taboo-Image-FINAL-1220x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"217\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Still from \u201cTehran Taboo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to understand the social contradictions in Iran that lead to periodic explosions like those that took place recently, there is no better resource than Iranian film. Often risking repression, which at its most extreme cost the life of environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami, filmmakers put a spotlight on the grievances of large parts of the population, especially women and those who have not benefited from the wealth-producing oil rentier state.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers have an unparalleled opportunity to see Iranian film at its best this month from two unheralded directors. On February 14<sup>th<\/sup>, the Film Forum will be showing \u201cTehran Taboo\u201d, a noirish animated feature by Ali Soozandeh who lives and works in Germany after leaving Iran in 1995 at the age of 25. I have no doubt that \u201cTehran Taboo\u201d will get my nomination as both best foreign-language and animated film for 2018. It is the story of three women dealing with different aspects of a suffocating patriarchy and one young man trying to live the life of a free artist in an unfree society. On February 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, the Anthology Film Archives will be showing a retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei\u2019s documentaries that address Iran\u2019s deep-seated gender and class injustices. While Iranian film is best known in the West for the narrative works of Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi, Oskouei deserves pride of place alongside such masters. His work has appeared at over 400 film festivals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/14\/an-iranian-tragedy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still from \u201cTehran Taboo.\u201d If you want to understand the social contradictions in Iran that lead to periodic explosions like those that took place recently, there is no better resource than Iranian film. Often risking repression, which at its most extreme cost the life of environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami, filmmakers put a spotlight on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}