“I Will One Day Live in Iran”: Exile and the Politics of Longing in Marjane Satrapi’s Work
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, filmmaker, and artist best known for Persepolis, has died at the age of 56. Her family told AFP that she “died of sadness” following the death of her husband, Swedish producer Mattias Ripa, in April last year. Later that month, messages posted on her Instagram account included the words:…
Algeria and Palestine: How Settler Colonialism Re-engineers Space and Sovereignty
If settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, then its most vivid manifestations occur not on the battlefield but in land registers, zoning maps, courtrooms, and cadastral surveys. It is here in those somewhat mundane bureaucratic procedures of governance that colonial power is normalised, routinised and rendered seemingly legitimate. The violent episodes of…
Glimpses of Iranian Society through Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s Lens
From the McCarthyism era in the West to Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the East, films and filmmakers have been at the discretion of their governments. The censorship mechanism in Iran especially resembles the US censorship era, except it is state-controlled like China. One is left to wonder and ask how Iranian cinema thrives in such…
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