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"

Netflix, reviews

http://www.netflix.com

please check out the reviews on "The House is Black"...
(and smile because that is what I can do right now and I enjoy the scenery)

Professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa's email..

Professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa emailed me back on further research on Ebrahim Golestan.
Unfortunately his films are not available..but The Golestan event( in May and in Chicago) is open to public :))))) . (I will be going. I mean I have to go..)

I hope to give more updates when I learn more.

currently, writing my abstract...

just a "perfect" day..

The items that are not available (and not going to be available) are

• Khist va a¯yinah
• I Shall Salute the Sun Once Again..both videos.. :(
  

*******Suggestions : Shirin Neshat's "Woman Moves" -DVD about 45 mins..very well done..
It is available in Suny Binghamton Main Library

Articles for today

• Cichocki, Nina. Veils, Poems, Guns and Martyrs: Four Themes of Muslim Women's Experiences in Shirin Neshat's Photographic Work
• Shahidian Hammed. Iranian Exiles and Sexual Politics: Issues of Gender Relations and Identity
• Oehler-Stricklin, Dylan Olivia. `And This is I: The Power of the Individual in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad

I started reading already.. (hopefully) great sources!!

Women's Studies Event in March: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/ws/events.html

Events taking place in Monclair State University,
I would like to go there wouldn't I...

Iranian Women: A Revolution of the Senses

On Thursday afternoon, March 8th (International Women’s Day)—The Visiting Writer’s Committee of the Department of English, with assistance from the Women’s Studies Program, the Honors Program, and Global Education —

invites you to an exciting panel introducing the artistic and scholarly work of Three Creative Iranian Women. The event will be held in Cohen Lounge, from 11:30 a.m till 2:30 p.m., with a reception and book-signing in between classes (i.e. from 12:45-to approx 1p.m).

The program will be in the following order:

11:35-12:00: Nahid Rachlin will read from her recently-published memoir, Persian Girls.

12:00-12:30: Faegeh Shirazi will share research from her book, The Veil Unveiled through a power point presentation.

12:30-12:45: Q and A; reception

1-1:30: Nahid Rachlin will read from her memoir, share creative non-fiction strategies, and answer questions about the writing process.

1:30-2:00: Maryam Habibian will read her translations of Iranian feminist poet Forugh Forrukhzad’s poetry and show clips of her film on Forugh’s life and on Tehran.

2-2:30 p.m: Q and A, followed by book signing.

keep me busy :S

now.. for weeks I have had these books and I still need them for further research..
Those books are..

• Dabashi Hamid. Close Up Iranian Cinema Past,Present and Future
• Corrigan, Timothy J. A short guide to writing about film
• Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Saeed-Vafa, Mehrnaz. Abbas Kiarostami
• Turovskaya, Maya. Tarkovsky
• McCabe. Cinematic Modernism
• Forugh Farrokhzad. Another Birth(Translated by Hasan Javadi, Susan Sallee)

and many more articles..

• A Brief Critical History of Iranian Feature Film(1896-1975)
• Hansen, Miriam B. Introduction to Adorno, "Transparencies on Film"(1966)
• Allen, Richard W. The Aesthetic Experience of Modernity: Benjamin, Adorno, and Contemporary Film Theory
• Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. Iranian Cinema: Art,Society and the State
• Mayne, Judith. The Women at the Keyhole: Women's Cinema and Feminist Criticism
• Aicken, Frederick. Film as Poetry
• Harris, William. Cinema and Latin Poetry

the ones I liked are..

• Debrix, Jean. Cinema and Poetry
• Filippini, Bianca Maria. Forough Farrokhzad

and today I have noticed that I had someone missing in the picture:
Sergej Parajanov.. here are the books I will need..

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52098502&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40592753&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53476450&referer=brief_results

expectations

These are the books, articles and films I am waiting for..

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73498307&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73505898&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73520942&referer=brief_results

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70265549&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61707889&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61572544&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6002783&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39677445&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18231790&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37846788&referer=brief_results

sometimes we never hear back do we?

As a student of "confusion", I need help and there are people who helped A LOT and who are still helping A LOT..
Jonathan Rosenbaum,M. R. Ghanoonparvar ,Majid Mohammadi ,Emese Latkoczy,Hamit Toprak,Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey,Devan Bissonette,Jeffner Allen..
but not everybody is available..
I tried to get in touch with University of Tehran , Professor Farzaneh Milani, Professor Hamid Dabashi, facet sales (for further copyright information on films, I currently know it costs 150$) unfortunately I have not heard back
I hope you do not take this personally, as I said this is my log so I sort of have a list of people I have contacted..:) no offense.. no worries.. I am still working on finding more resources, watching more films and learning more...

phases..

Mainly when I decided to decide what to do for my women's studies independent project, I was thinking of working with a professor who would "understand" and "support" me without worrying about me being in engineering. I had Professor Allen before so she knew me. She also has been very supportive, we even had couple of meetings last semester so that I would have time to dig in the books I have back home.

Well, I was reading over the break..

• Furug Ferruhzad. Ask siirleri (kirmizi ) ISBN:975-9169-19-3
• Furug Ferruhzad,Cavit Mukaddes. Sadece ses kalicidir (YKY) ISBN:975-363-144-8
• Ahmed Samlu, Hasim Husrevsahi.Bana Aydinliktan Soz Et.(Adam) ISBN: 975-418-601-4
• Ahmed Samlu, Cavit Mukaddes.Ey Ask, Ey Ask! Mavi Yuzun Gorunmuyor (YKY) ISBN:975-08-0785-5
• Furug Ferruhzad.Dunya sevmek icin cok kucuk(gri) ISBN:975-98437-5-7
• Mantegh at-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds) by Farid od-Din Attar

Other than those;
I had sources from the University,

• Hillmann, Michael C. Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry: A lonely Woman
• Milani, Farzaneh.Forugh Farrokhzad: a feminist perspective
• Milani, Farzaneh. Veils and Words: The emerging voices of Iranian women writers
• Also there is an article on Jstor that I worked on, by Girdhari Tikku
  

I have seen the movie she directed "The House is Black"

Then, I made up my mind. I loved the film.. I would do something with words and images..

The "first" entry...

Well, today I decided to put up a blog related to this project. Mainly, I want to keep track (digital track).
I do my readings almost everyday(well, I try I have programs to write, projects to submit, problems to solve...etc...etc) and I learn so many things I figured I would put them up here.. whether useful or completely unnecessary I need to put them down(somehow somewhere).
I do want to see how this project will come out, if it ever does..:)