Blog | Rayan Farzad

The Value of a Moving Image

I was watching an episode of a multi–Emmy Award-winning TV series. There was this scene in the middle of the episode in which the mother...

What is diversity? Where did we go wrong?

The news of Israeli actor Gal Gadot, cast as the last the Ptolemy dynasty ruler of Egypt Cleopatra, brought up the issue of diversity...

F for Fake

I know the debate felt chaotic and unwatchable, but as mad as Trump sounded and looked, he was, as always, incredibly strategic. The best...

Actors, conflict, theme!

If all you have are three actors and a room, what you can do with those resources? The answer to this question is the key to where the...

Goerge Floyd's murder. Do we need more dramas?

I wanted to write this months ago, but I was too distracted and not ready. When ideas come to you at the very beginning, they are too...

The dark, shiny, silent, loud.

Parasite Analysis Part I

Anyone who claims that a film demonstrates a society is vastly exaggerating. Societies are extremely sophisticated entities with layers...

Simin

I am lying on my bed watching YouTube on my phone. “We had an aspiration of Easter.” Trump says before the video is paused.

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