Daryush Shokof

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Daryush Shokof (2016)

Daryush Shokof (* 25. June 1954 in Tehran as Alireza Shokoufandeh ) is an Iranian philosopher , artist , independent filmmaker and writer , who in Germany lives.

Life

Daryush Shokof emigrated to the United States in 1979 . In the 1980s he studied physics and mathematics . He also graduated from the New York Film Academy. In 1981 he took part in an art exhibition for the first time. This took place in the New York gallery Gorky . He had his first exhibition in Europe in the March gallery in Cologne .

Between 1981 and 2003 Shokof painted pictures which he was able to show in around 60 exhibitions worldwide. Thereof 20 solo and about 40 group exhibitions, among others with Andy Warhol , Bruce Nauman , Jeff Koons , Chuck Close , Roy Lichtenstein , Ed Ruscha , Jim Dine , Robert Mapplethorpe , Louise Bourgeois , Rodney Graham , Heim Steinbach and John Chamberlain . His last retrospective with more than 100 paintings by Daryush Shokof was in the Galerie360 Grad , a project by L'art Visit , in the building of the former Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin in 2003.

In 1990 he made his first experimental short film Angels Are Wired in Prague . After a few more short films, he made his debut film Seven Servants with Anthony Quinn . The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 1996 and has received awards at other festivals such as Berlin, St. Petersburg, Toronto and Montreal. His film Venussian Tabutasco had its world premiere in 2004 as part of the 2nd Berlin Asia-Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF).

To date, Shokof has produced and directed eight feature films and more than ten short films. His film dramas Hitler's Grave and Iran Zendan were released in 2010.

On May 24, 2010 Shokof disappeared at Cologne Central Station , where he wanted to board a train to Paris . On June 5, 2010, he was found by passers-by on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne . He said he was kidnapped and four Arabic- speaking people locked him up and drugged him. After the investigation was over, the responsible public prosecutor's office in Cologne announced in March 2011 that contradictions in Shokof's statements raised considerable doubts about the kidnapping he claimed. No traces of drugs or the like were found at Shokof during the intensive forensic examinations . The public prosecutor's office refrained from filing a criminal complaint for pretending to be a criminal offense .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1990: Angels Are Wired (short film)
  • 1991: Ben Hur, the Breathless Taxi-Driver in Casablanca
  • 1993: Dogs Are Not Allowed
  • 1996: Seven Servants
  • 1997: Magass
  • 2000: Tenussian Vacuvasco
  • 2003: Venussian Tabutasco
  • 2003: Kiss, Long and Close (short film)
  • 2004: A2Z
  • 2004: She will ... (She would ...) (short film)
  • 2006: Asudem
  • 2006: Breathful
  • 2007: Smoqing (short film)
  • 2007: Epicalypse Now (short film)
  • 2010: Iran Zendan
  • 2010: Hitler's Grave
  • 2012: Strange, Stranger
  • 2012: Wordlessness
  • 2012: Flushers
  • 2014: Blind Paris (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gallery 360 degrees
  2. ↑ Seven Servants ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information about the film on the website www.longtale.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.longtale.com
  3. ↑ Iranian director disappeared without a trace in: Die WELT , May 29, 2010.
  4. ↑ Missing director found . In: Kölnische Rundschau , June 6, 2010.
  5. ↑ I will not bow to the mullah regime. I will continue!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , June 17, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  6. ↑ A single fate as rejection - Daryush Shokof in conversation with Dina Netz . In: Deutschlandfunk - Kultur heute , August 18, 2010, accessed on August 29, 2010.
  7. ^ Abduction was faked In: Kölnische Rundschau , March 16, 2011, accessed on July 7, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Shokof, Daryush
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shokoufandeh, Alireza (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian philosopher, artist, independent filmmaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran