Film Screening & Discussion: See You Friday, Robinson

Date
Thu September 8th 2022, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Event Sponsor
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Location
In Person at Stanford (location TBD)

Join us for a screening of the film “See You Friday, Robinson” and a discussion with Mitra Farahani, the film’s producer, writer, and director.  Film is in French with English subtitles, conversation will be in English. Watch the trailer on YouTube.

“A few years ago, Mitra Farahani had an idea. Could she engineer the encounter of two great filmmakers who, although they belong to the same generation, have never met in person: Jean-Luc Godard, the Swiss master who needs no introduction, and the less known Ebrahim Golestan, whose literary and film work is the bedrock of modern Iranian culture—two hermits of cinema’s technical and political revolution.

A meeting proves to be out of the question but, just as Farahani had to adapt the unforgettable Fifi Howls from Happiness after the unexpected death of her protagonist, this new setback stimulates another creative approach. Farahani suggests an encounter, to which a hesitant Godard, playful as ever, replies: 'We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another.' Contemplating their common and/or divergent odysseys, the maestros begin sending each other a message, every Friday, for 29 weeks. À Vendredi, Robinson offers an insight into the role of the artist in the 20th and 21st centuries. With death now a tangible possibility, the two great men also consider their own end, as intellectuals and critics of the times. One thing is certain: they won’t be facing it with anything less than razor-sharp insight and, of course, humor.”

Mitra Farahani

Mitra Farahani is a painter, filmmaker, and film producer working between Rome and Paris. She graduated with a degree in graphic design from the city’s Azad University in 1997 and then emigrated to Paris where she studied plastic arts, video and film at ENSAD. Since then, she has worked in both fine art and moving images. In 2002, her short film Juste une Femme screened at the Berlinale where all her subsequent films have also premiered. Since 2012, she has been working as a producer on films including Jean-Luc Godard’s 2018 work, Le livre d’image.

Marjaneh Moghimi

This event is dedicated to the memory of Marjaneh Moghimi, an award-winning producer and director, an accomplished production manager, and a curator. Marjaneh was a dear colleague, friend, and role model—her loss earlier this year was felt deeply in the community.  Photo credit: Luna Shad

If you need a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact us at iranianstudies [at] stanford.edu (iranianstudies[at]stanford[dot]edu). Requests should be made by August 30, 2022.

Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts.