Using lines from Judith Mayne, Kazemimanesh’s film offers a meditation on traditional narratives and their re-appropriation of the role of women.
Sara Kazemimanesh
Sara Kazemimanesh is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Arts and a scholar/artist in Film at Ohio University. Her background is in literature, history, visual culture, and journalism. Sara’s PhD research focuses on women in expanded cinema and their initiation of a new discourse of body politics in contemporary Iran. Her areas of research include film theory and practice, experimental and underground movements in film, modern history, and postmodern theory.
Sara is an experimental filmmaker. Her short silent 16 mm film, Immunity Not Limitation, debuted in the 2019 Athens International Film + Video Festival.
As a writer and editor, Sara’s collaboration with photographer Newsha Tavakolian has resulted in three critically acclaimed projects: Listen (2011), Look (2013), and Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album (2015).
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