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Mansoor Behnam
Mansoor Behnam is an interdisciplinary scholar of Film, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies. In addition to Iranian Cinema, his scholarly pursuits revolve around the intersection of Islamic Thought/Mysticism and the Philosophy of Immanence, as he tirelessly seeks to unravel the potential connections, particularly within cinema. Alongside his research, Mansoor occasionally crafts experimental videos that draw inspiration from his academic inquiries and his experience as an immigrant. These research-creation projects have been screened and discussed in various art venues, including artist-run centers, universities, and museums.
Contributions
Figure1: The Film Poster Close-Up (1990), ‛Abbās Kīyārustamī. “The struggle against the established order is always individual, a struggle which…
Figure 1: Frame enlargement of the film poster for A Dragon Arrives! (Azhdahā Vārid Mīshavad, 2016), Mānī Haqīqī. Introduction and…
In the film Taste of Cherry (by ‛Abbās Kīyārustamī, 1997), Mr. Badīʻī (played by Homayoun Ershadi), a middle-aged Iranian man,…
Musāfirān (Travelers, 1991) “Travelers is a film about fertility, which may be what all my films are about: creation, fertility,…
Introduction This article offers an analysis of Suhrāb Shahīd Sālis’s debut film, A Simple Event (Yik Ittifāq-i Sādah, 1973)1All copyrighted…
Introduction Maybe Some Other Time (Shāyad Vaqtī Dīgar, 1988)1All the images employed in this text are screenshots (under fair use)…
Hamid Hamoun, a middle-aged Iranian sales agent and writer/intellectual in a conflicting relationship with his beloved wife Mahshid, tries to…
In the village of Lamelang near the northern city of Gorgan, a schoolboy is said to have witnessed that a…
