The Revolution in the wanderings of Kamran Shirdel

“I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.” —Michelangelo Antonioni As a forerunner of the Iranian documentary cinema, and much like his mentor, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kamran Shirdel has always been presenting his own interpretation of reality, challenging his audience to face a difficult question concerning the nature of an event. However, his commissioned and self-produced documentarie works, even those that were made as industrial documentaries, have been caught in a web of political considerations, which has in turn made them into significant documents of the Iranian contemporary society.