Shadow Play Sheds a Beautiful Light on Iran and its Long, Rich Culture
Coming across something truly unique is a near impossibility, but Hamid Rahmanian has delivered. He is a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship-winning filmmaker, and Feathers of Fire is the project.
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Jan 27, 2021
Hamid Rahmanian is an Iranian-born artist who was educated in graphic design and had his own business out of college. Success not standing still, he emigrated in 1994 and earned a master’s of fine arts in computer animation from the Pratt Institute. A job with Disney followed, and Rahmanian provided animation on films such as
Tarzan, The Emperor s New Groove, and
Naima Shalhoub: Naima Shalhoub is a Lebanese Arab-American vocalist, composer, performing artist, and educator based in the Bay Area. Her multidimensional work explores the borderlands of belonging, remembrance, freedom, and the expansive quality of the voice - its power for healing and energizing social justice movements. Her first full-length studio album, Siphr, was released on August 6th, 2020.
Her debut album, Live in San Francisco County Jail, was recorded alongside an audience of incarcerated women with whom she had been facilitating weekly Music and Freedom sessions for one year (many of whom participated in the performance). Produced in solidarity with movements to end the prison-industrial complex, the recording embodies Naima s deeply-held belief that it is an artist s duty to reflect the times (Nina Simone).