1105 S Washington Ave
Lansing, MI 48910
USA
The Mongols
7pm • Friday, December 8, 2017 • Robin Theatre, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing
—Programmed by Kaveh Askari
Parviz Kimiavi’s The Mongols (1973) is one of the most formally experimental films of pre-revolutionary Iran. It is a reflexive film about a filmmaker (played by Kimiavi himself) suspicious of technological change as television antennae broadcast foreign content further and further into remote regions of Iran. This meditation on media and empire juxtaposes discontinuous moments in the long history of these forces in the region. The film intercuts television broadcasts, found footage of nineteenth-century moving images, and a dream-like staging of the thirteenth-century Mongol invasion in a fascinated, but anxious, exploration of the effects of new media technologies as they gain traction around the world.
Broad Underground is an ongoing collaboration between the MSU Broad, Film Studies program, and Department of English at MSU. This year’s partnering venue is The Robin Theatre in REO Town, Lansing, with special thanks to the Lansing Public Media Center.
