Blog | Rayan Farzad

May 27, 20214 min

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...

Oct 14, 20203 min

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...

Aug 19, 20202 min

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...

May 30, 20203 min

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...

May 1, 20203 min

The dark, shiny, silent, loud.

Apr 13, 20204 min

Parasite Analysis Part I

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

Apr 1, 20204 min

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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