, as part of the Walker’s Views from Iran series. Heiranis the first feature length narrative film written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Shalizeh Arefpour and produced by visiting filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.  This is a film that contains what appears to be a simple narrative, and one that has been worked out many times in the history of world cinema: a story of love interrupted and troubled…

Women Without Men (Zanaan-e bedun-e mardan) has two screenings as part of the Walker’s Views from Iran series:  April 16 at 7:30 pm and April 17 at 7:30 pm. The film will be introduced by director Shirin Neshat and collaborator Shoja Azari on April 16. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists. Shirin Neshat’s first feature film is an adaptation of Iranian novelist Shahrnush…

Asghar Farhadi’s latest film About Elly screens on Friday, April 9th at 7:30 pm as part of the Walker’s Views from Iranseries. About Elly has a deceptively simple premise: a group of middle-class Tehranis go on a short vacation to the Caspian Sea.  Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) is the most gregarious of the group, as well as its leader, and her main objective for the trip is to play matchmaker to her…

Pushing aside the thick black curtains to step into a small black box in the gallery is taking the first step into another world.  Chris Marker’s 1962 short piece is a film of photographs, a series of long still images, each occupying the frame for a long moment.  It’s as if stepping through the curtain time slowed—as if the film’s 24 frames per second sputtered nearly to a stop and what would be…

A most appropriate teaser to the upcoming exhibition The Talent Show, Laurel Nakadate’s Stay the Same Never Change premieres at the Walker Cinema on Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 pm. Curator Peter Eleey’s review ofGreater New York 2005 at P.S.1 labeled her early work as “disturbed videos of herself horsing around with dirty old men“ (Frieze 2005), and though the embodiment of dirty might be substituted…

I started the film because I was thinking about how we’ve come to understand freedom in this country. More and more over the years, we think about freedom being tied to property ownership, and then property needs to be defended. It seemed to me that a lot of people were defining freedom in terms of commodity or something material whereas for me it still is very much something absolutely…

In looking forward to the upcoming events of “Expanding the Frame: Journeys,” a parallel revealed itself to me, whether intentional or not. Besides the theme of journeys, another common thread that binds the films and artists together is the persistence of vision. This diligence spans beyond the artistry and transcends to a humanistic plane.  This vision is what takes the artist on the aforementioned…

Though this is not a part of the Walker show, I think this excerpt from a Joe Grimm + Ben Russell collaboration can give a sense of what you can expect from Ben’s performance of The Black and White Gods. Though this isn’t a part of the Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry Performance, this Hidden Cameras video gives a good insight into Barrow’s visual style. Though this isn’t a part of the Every Time…