Dec 1, 2017
Hatef Alimardani is a renowned Iranian filmmaker, director,
and screenwriter whose movies are noticeably engaged with
socio-political dilemmas, cultural cleavages and economic
difficulties of present-day Iran, portrayed through stories of
Iranian middle class families.
My dialogue with him revolves around issues such as the
correlation between cinema and science, cinema and society,
aesthetics of cinema, cinema as an autonomous medium, and
naturalistic cinema. In this podcast, Alimardani, as a professional
filmmaker, emphasizes the power and penetration of the cinematic
picture through evoking and touching upon the emotional and mental
state of cinema’s audiences. Hatef Alimardani characterizes Iran’s
cinema as an internationally-recognized artistic phenomenon which
is primarily tangled with representation of interpersonal
relationships contextualized in the current turbulent situation of
the Iranian society.