Satellite, as long as it is aiming at the sky (Event Over)

Satellite, as long as it is aiming at the sky

A video project by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi

Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program

This timely video peers into the microcosm of Persian-language satellite television stations, now numbering more than 20, that broadcast internationally from Los Angeles. With the majority of their audiences residing in Iran, these stations have come to produce a surplus geography between “here” and “there,” carrying highly provisional, ambivalent political and cultural identities.   The screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmakers moderated by Norman M. Klein.  

In person: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi