Farbod Honarpisheh is a research scholar with the Department of Film and Media Studies at Yale University, where he first arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019.
His dissertation, “Fragmented Allegories of National Authenticity: Art and Politics of the Iranian New Wave Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s,” was completed at Columbia University. Farbod’s academic publications include: “The Oriental ‘Other’ in Soviet Cinema, 1929–34”; “You Are on Indian Land: Between Borders, Styles, and Authors”; and “Koşucu’nun Tasviri: Devrim Sonrası İran Sinemasının Önemli Bır Filmine Gösterilen Tepkiler Üstüne Bir Çalişma” (“Representing The Runner: A Reception Study of a Major Film From PostRevolutionary Iran”). His research interests include film and media theory, critical theory, decolonization, Middle Eastern cinemas and literatures, comparative modernist studies (visual and literary), intermediality, indigeneity, documentary studies (particularly in its ethnographic and diasporic variants), and transnationalism. In addition to his research and teaching, Farbod has for years also sustained a passion for organizing film/video and arts related events, curating, for instance, a program of Iranian films entitled “Iranian Documentaries: Past and Present” for Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal in 2005, and the cinema segment of the exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish and Indian Highlights at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery in 2020. He is presently working on a monograph based on his doctoral dissertation.
In the middle of debris and ruin, the Seville Oranges (naranj) were shining from behind dusty leaves. And again it was pickaxes that would come down on the rooftops, and the mud brick and dirt that would fall. —Ebrahim Golestan, From the Days Gone Narrate The wind is blowing through the street, the beginning of…
