Shirin Neshat Movies

This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.

Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the...

Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of...

The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recording...

The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of...

Produced in collaboration with the American musical composer Philip Glass, Neshat’s narrative follows a procession of men as they carry a body...

In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic...

Two screens face each other in a dark room, only a bench off to the side interrupting the space between them. Settling into this interstitial expanse...