Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hamid Dabashi
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hamid Dabashi

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Overview

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972, Makhmalbaf formed his own urban guerrilla group and two years later attacked a police officer, for which he was arrested and jailed. He remained incarcerated until 1978, when the revolutionary wave led by Ayatollah Khomeini freed him and launched his career as a writer and self-taught filmmaker. Since then, Makhmalbaf has gone on to make such highly admired films as Gabbeh and The Silence.

The three lengthy conversations collected here, between Makhmalbaf and leading Iranian film critic and scholar Hamid Dabashi, traverse the filmmaker’s experiences as a young radical, his critical stance regarding the current Islamic regime, and his fascination with films—both as product and as process. In this in-depth view of one of the most significant Middle Eastern filmmakers of our time, Makhmalbaf reflects on the relationship between cinema and violence, tolerance, and social change, as well as the political and artistic importance of the autonomy of the filmmaker.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857425942
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 09/15/2018
Series: Conversations
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker, playwright, and novelist. He and his family, all filmmakers in their own right, currently live in Paris and make their films in India, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Hamid Dabashi is a professor at Columbia University and the author of many books and essays on cinema, including Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future; Dreams of A Nation: On Palestinian Cinem; and Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker.




Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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