HAFT CINEMA V
HOPE FACES DEFEAT AND INVENTS POSSIBILITY
Hope faces defeat and invents possibility.
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TRANSLATION EXERCISE.
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Translations may be complete or partial
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April 02, 2026
programme
I Comme Iran [I For Iran] Sanaz Azari | 2014 | 50 min.
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INTERROBANG 11232 Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
April 26 2026 | 18.00 EST
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THE HOUSE ARTS COLLECTIVE Glasgow, Scotland
May 03 2026 | 18.00 BST
SOFTCORE CINEMA CLUB Oxford, England
May 07 2026 | xx.xx BST
THE BENCH COLLECTIVE East London, England
May 28 2026 | xx.xx BST
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I Comme Iran (2014)
Supplementary Reading
On defeat: Shahram Khosravi, ‘Defeat as Method’, Cabinet Magazine, July 2026, especially paragraphs 15-17.
On translation: Maria Rybakova, ‘Imagination versus Attention: Simone Weil translating the Iliad’, Arion 15, no. 2 (2007), especially pp. 33 - 35.
On invention: Charles E. Adelsen, ‘A Love Affair: James Baldwin and Istanbul’ Ebony, March 1970, p.46.