Mohammad Shirvani

Mohammad Shirvani's personal archive

Mohammad Shirvani (born 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director. Mohammad Shirvani is a contemporary Iranian film director, script writer, visual artist and producer who was born in Tehran at 1973. He started painting in his youth but as he had to do military services, he left the Fine Art School. After seven years he made his first short film “The Circle” while he was a runaway soldier. The film was chosen by the film critics at Cannes Festival in 1999. Ever since he has dedicated himself to cinema full-time and he is currently the pioneer of the alternative cinema in Iran. His films has been widely selected at more than 300 international film festivals including: Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Sundance, Locarno, Toronto, Tribeca, Busan and etc. This is while four of his films are banned and the rest are not published in his motherland. Currently he is discovering and improving young talents through his “Alternative Cinema Workshop”.His films include President Mir Qanbar (2005), Navel (2003) The Candidate (2001) and Fat Shaker (2013). His film President Mir Qanbar won the Audience Favorite Award at the inaugural, 2007 Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Short Films

Title Time Format Year
The Circle 12 MIN 35MM 1999
The Candidate 15 MIN DV-35MM 2000
To Consent 20 MIN DV 2001
Souvenir 20 MIN DV 2001
The Cherries Which Were Canned 13 MIN 35MM 2002
Iranian Conserve 14 MIN DV 2003
The Calm City 2 MIN DV 2005
Six Eyes 23 MIN DV 2014
Tight Skin of the Ambiance 15 MIN IPHONE 4 2014

Documentary Films

Title Time Format Year
Peresident Mir Qanbar 65 MIN DV 2005
Where 's Leili 73 MIN DV 2006
444Days 57 MIN HDV 2007
Seven Blind Woman Filmmakers 106 MIN DV 2004-2008
ranian Cookbook 73 MIN DV 2009
021,Tehran 51 MIN HDV 2010
Telescope 78 MIN HD 2011

Video Art

Title Time Format Year
The Calm City 2 MIN DV 2005
Khayyam 5 MIN HB 2008
Unit Further Notice 184 MIN HDV 2008
Six Eyes 23 MIN HD 2014

Feature Films

Title Time Format Year
Navel 82 MIN DV-35MM 2002
Fat Shaker 84 MIN HD 2013

Performance Art

Title location Year
Open Tehran 2011
Face of the Winner man Tehran 2012

Installation Art

Title location Year
Elephant in the Darkness Rotterdam 2013

Awards

External links


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