The Cinema of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Conference - Programme

19 April 2008
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London.

A conference that will explore the films of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and the broader impact of her work.

Programme

9:30 Registration, coffee and tea
10:00Opening remarks
Professor Paul Webley, Director and Principal of SOAS, University of London
10:15Plenary speaker
Roxanne Varzi: Motherhood, Sacrifice and the aftermath of war in Bani-Etemad's Gilaneh
10:40Panel One: Bani-Etemad's cinema: challenges for film theory
Chair: Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Tilly Walnes: "You just turn dumb in front of this camera": Reconfiguring melodramatic expression in Under the Skin of the City
Taraneh Dadar: Unveiled spectators: A discussion of spectatorship in the cinema of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Chris Gow: Self-Reflexivity in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's The May Lady
12:00Lunch break
13:30Panel Two: Bani-Etemad's cinema: Gender and sexual politics
Chair: Annabelle Sreberny
Hamid Reza Sadr: Nargess: The sexual dynamism of love triangle
Maryam Ghorbankarimi: Gender balance on the screen: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's films since the 1990s
Alain Brunet: 'The mother' in Bani-Etemad's cinema
15:00Tea break
15.30Panel Three: Bani-Etemad's cinema: meaning, language and violence
Chair: Roxanne Varzi
Asal Bagheri: The blue veiled: How to unveil taboos between women and men
Naghmeh Samini: A spinning coin: The opposition between violence and dialogue in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's films
17:00Plenary speaker:
Laura Mulvey: Bani-Etemad's cinema: Final thoughts
18:00End