Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects: The Films of Amir Naderi AT MOMA

Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects: The Films of Amir Naderi

March 16–27, 2018 – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/4954

“Amir Naderi’s journey as a filmmaker began in Iran, where he was born in the southern port city of Abadan in 1946. Orphaned as a child, he spent his formative years on the street (an existence dramatized in his 1984 feature THE RUNNER). A job working in a movie theater led him to discover his true homeland—the cinema—and Naderi has remained a citizen of that refined world ever since, pursuing his passion for filmmaking...