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SHAHIN PARHAMI | Iranian-Canadian writer, director
and filmmaker Shahin Parhami was
born in Shiraz, the cultural capital of Iran.
After his arrival to Canada in 1988, he quickly became an active
writer of poetry and essays for local Iranian-Canadian publications
on arts and culture. His insatiable appetite for cinema later
inspired him to pursue film studies and production first at Ottawa's
Carleton University, and later at Concordia University in Montréal.
Shahin directed his first film
"Nasoot" in 1997, which was screened in many film festivals.
This poetic meditation on the death of three Iranian refugees
constituted the first part of a trilogy on Iran and diaspora,
which he later completed with "Lahoot" (1998) and "Jabaroot"
(2003).
Shahin Parhami is the mastermind
behind all his work, producing his own films and being responsible
for all creative elements. An ardent lover of poetry, Shahin develops
his projects with a style that borrows from traditional and modern
poetics of Persian visual culture and literature to reveal a rich
and fascinating expression.
In his most recent production,
"Faces" (Chehreh-ha, 2007) , an experimental and multi-layered
documentary on 10 Iranian artists living in Canada, Shahin dives
into questions that are tied to exile, identity, and maintaining
one's culture in a context of immigration.
"Faces" premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival
and won the best feature film award at the Experimental Film Festival
(FLEXIFF) 2007 (Sydney, Australia).
Links for Shahin Parhami's
film excerpts:
Nasoot (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJbRjdiymY
Lahoot (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Lzdjcvcyk
Jabaroot (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtV9-5RVwbQ
Excerpt 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHgakXrcQQ
Nessian (Amnesia) (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-QNQgfAehg
Raga Malkauns (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvUhCDUyio
FACES (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uuZOcwLJ6I
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