Shirin Neshat Movies

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden,...

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to...

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the...

Artist Shirin Neshat explains the film: "I was interested in how female singers are universally treated as objects of desire. At first, Cate looks...

Four female artists have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using their most...

ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an...

The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium....

Roja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect...

The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recording...

This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.

The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of...

Produced in collaboration with the American musical composer Philip Glass, Neshat’s narrative follows a procession of men as they carry a body...

In Possessed, a seemingly mad woman in an Islamic village evokes questions of social acceptability.

On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be...

In Sarah, 2016, it is a forest environment that becomes a site of haunting; mysterious and unknowable. The protagonist Sarah is played by Sara...

Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance to...

Two-channel video installation by Shirin Neshat

In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic...

Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of...