Dec. 7, 2015, 3:55 a.m.
Pelan #19: "Out Of Focus"
- Director: Shahriar Siami
- Screening: Dec. 14, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
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- SFU Harbour Centre - Room 2270
- Run time: 52
Out of Focus profiles an Iranian artist Afshin Naghouni, a well known Iranian-British painter born and raised in Iran, who suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury during a birthday party in Tehran when he fell from the seventh floor of a building while trying to escape from Iranian police. He was able to move to UK seventeen years ago for treatment and has rebuilt his life, getting married and now working as an artist from his wheelchair. His paintings are in large scales and some of them are shown in very famous London galleries with high prices. He usually paints women in hijab or nude which their bodies are collages of the western women photos or the other way around.