ArtReview
Gelare Khoshgozaran ‘Medina Wasl: Connecting Town’ (still), 2018, 16mm film transferred to video, sound, colour, 31 min
The Los Angeles-based Iranian filmmaker opens up a brave new world of contemporary storytelling
In late October last year, a neon-yellow envelope came through my letterbox. Inside was a thick black card embossed with the sentence, ‘The gradients of fascism are diverse in their predictable dullness’. On the other side was a business-card-size USB drive, printed with a patchy green pattern of what might be an ivy-covered wall, punctuated by a figure covering their face with a black-and-white mask printed with the features of director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The sentence and the image both appear in the nine-minute film contained on the drive,