“Jafar Panahi’s Taxi” Screening
2022-2023 Screenings
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
6 PM
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver/director. His camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama, and cinema.
Stream the film on your own and then join us for a conversation led by Dr. Mark Cunningham.
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WATCH THE CONVERSATION
Held on Wednesday, October 26th
Watch the film in advance and then watch the conversation with Dr. Khatereh Sheibani, a scholar, author, and curator of Iranian cinema and Persian literature and culture. Joined by Dr. Mark D. Cunningham, an Associate Professor in Radio-Television-Film at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.
CO-DISCUSSANT:
Dr. Khatereh Sheibani is a scholar, author and curator of Iranian cinema and Persian literature and culture. She has established multiple courses in Persian studies (language, literature and culture) at York University. Khatereh completed her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. Her book entitled The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution was published in November 2011 by I.B.Tauris, UK . She has co-edited a special issue of Iran Namag on Abbas Kiarostami (w/ Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto Press, 2018). Khatereh has written articles on modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema and Middle Eastern cinemas in literary and film anthologies and journals such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies.