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Documentary Movie Screening "Tehran Tourist" by Prof. Roxanne Varzi

Please join us on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 6:00-8:00 pm in UC Irvine's McCormick Screening Hall (HG) 1070 for the screening of the documentary movie "Tehran Tourist" directed by Prof. Roxanne Varzi (UC Irvine).

Synopsis

Anthropologist Roxanne Varzi travels back to Iran for her second experimental documentary. Tehran Tourist is not a traditional Safar Nameh, (classical Iranian travelogue), but a project in guerrilla film-making.  The film was shot mostly on an iPhone 4s, hand held and on the fly. It moves from the Archaeology museum in Tehran to a village in Kurdistan (recently devastated by an earthquake) to playgrounds and school rooms -- in and out of political landscapes and allegory to elucidate an Iran that very few are privy to. The film plays with youthful notions of identity and place and belonging as a child tries to make sense of where he is and where he came from while introducing the American viewer to an Iran that very few are privy to. It is also an ode to Abbass Kiarostami who deftly showed us the world through the eyes of a child.

There would be a Q&A session after the screening with the director.

This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow the event.

This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture in collaboration with Iranian American Women Foundation (IAWF).