Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless

pp 5-6

1 - Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark: The Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless

pp 7-27

2 - Point of View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless's Utopia

pp 28-42

3 - The Bl ind Owls of Modernity: Of Protocols, Mirrors and Grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Films

pp 43-63

4 - A Simple Event from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism?

pp 64-76

Part II - Creative Exiles

pp 77-78

5 - Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema

pp 79-100

6 - The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice

pp 101-120

Part III - The Stateless Moving Image

pp 121-122

7 - Curating the Nomadic: Film and Video at Ambika P3

pp 123-130

8 - A Certain Tenderness

pp 131-140

9 - Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Work of Exile

pp 141-150

10 - Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Work: Contemporary Perspectives

pp 151-158

Interview by Behrang Samsami (Journalist) with Bert Schmidt (Shahid Saless’s Cinematographer)

pp 159-165

Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Filmography

pp 166-169

A Film about Shahid Saless

pp 170-176

Index

pp 177-182