Shirin Neshat Movies

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...

Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance to...

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...

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...