"WOMEN WITHOUT MEN" Film Screening Hosted by Stein Galleries

The Stein Galleries will host a screening of the film "Women Without Men" by the renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat on Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. in M252 Creative Arts Center. Nicole Richter, Associate Professor of Motion Pictures, will lead a brief discussion following the film. Neshat's photographic work is featured in the current exhibition "EXPOSURE" at the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries until October 12.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (99 min.) is Shirin Neshat's independent film adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Women in Iran during the summer of 1953; a thriller that addresses themes such as human rights and women, women voting rights, and the womans rights movement, a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history and Muslim women rights when an American led, British backed coup d'état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power.