Arta Barzanji is an Iranian filmmaker and writer currently living in Philadelphia, where he attends Temple University’s MFA Film and Media Arts program. His writing appears both in Farsi and English, focusing on filmmakers such as Sohrab Shahid Saless, Straub-Huillet, Pedro Costa, as well as films like Satantango, The House Is Black, and Shanghai Express. Arta’s own films, including halluCINEtions and The Act of Seeing, explore the relationship between the viewer and the screen while engaging with the works of filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage and Malcolm Le Grice.
