Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Foreword xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless
9. 1 Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark: The Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless 7
10. 2 Point of View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Utopia 28
11. 3 The Blind Owls of Modernity: Of Protocols, Mirrors and Grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Films 43
12. 4 A Simple Event from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism? 64
13. Part II Creative Exiles
14. Introduction 77
15. 5 Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema 79
16. 6 The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice 101
17. Part III The Stateless Moving Image
18. Introduction 121
19. 7 Curating the Nomadic: Film and Video at Ambika P₃ 123
20. 8 A Certain Tenderness 131
21. 9 Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Work of Exile 141
22. 10 Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Work: Contemporary Perspectives 151
23. Interview by Behrang Samsami (Journalist) with Bert Schmidt (Shahid Saless’s Cinematographer) 159
24. Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Filmography 166
25. A Film about Shahid Saless 170
26. Index 177