Shirin Neshat

Will sits down to coffee with artist Shirin Neshat to discuss her debut feature-length movie, Women Without Men. They talk about the process of morphing from, and between, artist to filmmaker, and dealing the day-to-day issues of filmmaking. The movie, based on the novel of the same name by Shahrnush Parsipur, uses as its backdrop the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, but much of it can be read as an allusion to a lot of what is going on in Iran right now. Shirin also talks a bit about getting started in New York City and working at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, that indefatigably curious New York cultural landmark.

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