it has been a long time since I updated the blog

I have been working on my paper and the shootings during this time.
I have found some funding and I am very happy about that ..
Unfortunately You Tube somehow got rid of the copy of "The House is Black" and it is
not to be seen on You Tube anymore..
I guess we all need to purchase the DVD..
I just got a copy of "The Mirror of the Soul: The Forugh Farrokhzad Trilogy" by Nassar Saffarian.
I tried to contact him before but I guess it was a useless attempt yet I found his documentary very interesting, at some points though non- familiar people may find the film boring.
Because I am interested and I am curious about the "new scholarship on Forugh", I thought this was a great piece.

The trilogy is very interesting and it happens to be one of my sources as well..

Still working + studying+ such..

News on Conferences

Two of the conferences I have applied to just replied me :) and I am accepted to both of the conferences.

Words and Images. Language/Literature/Moving Pictures. Xth Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania
25 to 26 May 2007
Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA, Romania

1st Global Conference: Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues
3 to 5 July 2007
Oxford, United Kingdom

Currently I am looking for travel grants, actually any kind of funding. I know that undergraduates are never funded but I am doing my search. Almost all my sources have arrived including the short films by Ebrahim Golestan. I will be putting up the web page soon so that everything will be all together.

about the international women's day event and more..

I was at Montclair State University yesterday, I thought it would be difficult to find my way around but I managed.

[There were so many technical problems and I chose not to interfere(since I did not want to responsible for another school's equipment) but I helped a bit. I realized once more that there is a need for Computer Science majors minoring in Women's Studies :)]

There were three Iranian women invited as speakers:
Nahid Rachlin, Iranian-American author
Dr. Faegeh Shirazi, Associate Professor, Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin
Maryam Habibian, Playwright, director, and independent scholar

I had a chance to meet them all, I actually have Maryam Habibian's contact information as well as her film :Forough Farrokhzad Young Revolutionary Poetess of Tehran.
It was a great great experience for me. I also have her translations of Forough now that I got all I needed for my research.

I also got a very nice reply after I submitted my abstract. Even though I don't get accepted I feel good because they found my topic to be very interesting and I am waiting for some other e-mail hopefully I will be "accepted" :)

The House is Black and Forough Farrokhzad on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcBDO9sRtb4&watch_response
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2qDGXHQm30&mode=related&search=

The House is Black is available on YouTube,
There are also some other things that are interesting on Forugh as well.

OK so everyone can actually watch the whole film :)
(Technology just moves me )


ps: title found:) abstract in the last phase :)

I am going :)

Well the event I have mentioned in NJ, I am not going to miss it.
I am very very happy considering the fact that I did not have the opportunity to contact Maryam Habibian. It is kind of late to find out about her but I have read her play today on Forugh Farrokhzad and she will be showing the klips I believe on Thursday. (I am very very very curious )

I am looking for a title..

Well, I have finished the abstract, it needs to be polished but skeleton seems solid.
What I am looking for now is the title..

Asrar ganj dareheye jenni (1974)

One of Ebrahim Golestan's films arrived just now from the University of Chicago Film Studies Center. It is a DVD in Farsi with English Subtitles..
ENGLISH TITLE: "SECRET OF THE TREASURES OF DJINN VALLEY"