Foreword by Vahid Alaghband
Introduction by Azadeh Fatehrad
Part I: The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless
Chapter 1: Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark - the Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless, by Hamid Naficy
Chapter 2: Point-of-View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless' Utopia, by Christopher Gow
Chapter 3: The Blind Owls of Modernity. Of protocols, mirrors and grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless' films, by Matthias Wittmann
Chapter 4: 'A Simple Event' from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism?, by Majid Eslami ?
Part II: Creative Exiles
Chapter 5: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema, by Michelle Langford
Chapter 6: The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice, by Azadeh Fatehrad
Part III: The Stateless Moving Image
Chapter 7: Curating the Nomadic - Film and Video at Ambika P3, by Michael Maziere
Chapter 8: A Certain Tenderness, by Gareth Evans
Chapter 9: Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the work of exile, by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Chapter 10: Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless' Work: Contemporary Perspectives, by Dario Marchiori
Interview by Behrang Samsami with Bert Schmidt
Filmography
Film about Shahid Saless: Sohrab, A Journey (2016) produced by Omid Abdollahi
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