ARTICLES, TRANSLATIONS, INTERVIEWS

Edinburgh University Press | UK

▪ The Moving Body of Cinema: Denis Lavant and the Kinetics of Leos Carax’s Mise en Scène (Part of “Refocus: The Films of Leos Carax”) [Forthcoming]

Senses of Cinema | Australia

▪ The Hand That Sees: On Jean-Luc Godard’s Notebooks [Forthcoming]

Routledge | UK

▪ The Dialectical Possibilities of the Audiovisual Essay (Part of “Routledge Resources: Screen Studies”) [Forthcoming]

Ultra Dogme | Germany

▪ I Saw a Dry Leaf in a Field of Flowers: Locarno 78 and the Texture of Cinema [Sep 2025]

▪ Should Caravans Fly? Ben Rivers on the Magic and Alchemy of Bogancloch [Dec 2024]

▪ The Cost of Thinking: Open City Documentary Festival 2024 [Jun 2024]

▪ Children of the Night: On Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere [Apr 2024]

▪ “Hollywood in Germany or Culture as Currency” by Sohrab Shahid Saless) [Jan 2021] (Translator)

▪ On Bodies: ‘The House Is Black’ and the Politics of Corporeal Representation(s) [Oct 2020]       

▪ Danièle Huillet – A Moral Artist [Mar 2020]    

Kortfilm | Belgium

▪ Listening Images: On Fairuz & El Moïz Ghammam’s Oumoun [Forthcoming]

Koker Magazine | Iran

▪ “Cinemeteorology: On Too Early/Too Late” by Serge Daney [Forthcoming] (Translator)

▪ Philadelphia Story: The Miracle of Love and Cinema in Philly (Persian) [Nov 2024]

▪ Long Shots from History: Palimpsest in the Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (Persian) [Feb 2022]

▪ “Forever John Ford” by Serge Daney [Dec 2020] (Translator)

▪ To Live and Die in LA: On Los Angeles and Its Cinemas (Persian) [Nov 2020] 

Documentary Magazine | USA

▪ “What They Had to Conceal”: A Conversation with Maryam Tafakory [Aug 2025]

▪ Dark Night of the Body: An Interview with Sylvian George [May 2025]

▪ Locarno 2024: Technologies of Vision/Visions of Technology [Sep 2024]

▪ “Labor and War and Their Interconnectedness”: Film Historian Nora M. Alter Discusses Her New Harun Farocki Monograph [Aug 2024]

▪ Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024: Cinemalibero Strand Spotlights Maldoror and Landrián [Jul 2024]

▪ Folk Memory Project at Open City 2024: “Between Autoethnography and Anti-ethnography” [Jun 2024]

▪ “When Hope Is Weary”: Jemma Desai Questions What We Choose to Ignore [Apr 2024]

Swissinfo | Switzerland

▪ Zurich orchestra gives voice to composer who can’t leave Iran [Sep 2025]

▪ Locarno Festival sheds light on an under-appreciated era of British cinema [Aug 2025]

▪ Lady with torch leads American invasion of Locarno Film Festival [Aug 2024]

▪ Films, Art, Bathrooms: An Interview with Tsai Ming-Liang [Aug 2023]

Cinema Year Zero | UK

▪ To Sing at A Funeral: On Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image (For The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend catalouge ) [Jul 2025]

Sabzian | Belgium

▪ Serge Daney and Cinema’s Promise: A Dossier [Jun 2025] (Co-Editor)

▪ A Citizen of the World: Introduction to ‘Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema’ [Jun 2025] (Co-Author)

▪ From the Archive / 10 Years Sabzian:  ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ by Thierry Kuntzel [May 2025]

▪ On The Eve of the Future: Interview with Eduardo Williams [Feb 2024]

Cineaste Magazine | US

▪ Labyrinth of Desires: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia [May 2025] – Print

▪ Histories of French Cinema’s Moving Body: An Interview with Denis Lavant [Feb 2025] – Print         

Photogénie | Belgium

▪ Immovable Images, Unstoppable Frames: On the Contradiction of Moving Images [Mar 2024]

▪ Trenque Lauquen to the Power of Two [Oct 2023]

▪ Godard as Presence: A Ghost Obituary [Mar 2023]

▪ Trenque Lauquen review [Oct 2022]

▪ Bones and All review [Oct 2022]

▪ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review [Oct 2022]

▪ Ways of Seeing: Satantango and Records of a Cinephilic Encounter [Dec 2019]

Mubi Notebook | USA

▪ Notebook’s 16th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2023 [Dec 2023] (Contributor)

▪ Nourished by Time: Facing the Future of Cinema with Locarno’s Kevin B. Lee [Oct 2023]

Outskirts | Switzerland

▪ The Image Is False: The Lodger as Hitchcock’s Manifesto [Oct 2023]

Variety | USA

▪ Eduardo Williams Reimagines our Cinematic Present in The Human Surge 3 [Aug 2023]

Locarno Daily | Switzerland

▪ Contradictions of Capitalism: On Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World [Aug 2023] – Print 

CinéSPEAK | USA

▪ Philadelphia Monthly Arts Round-Up [Sep 2022- Jun 2023]:               

Jun 2023, May 2023, Apr 2023, Mar 2023, Feb 2023, Jan 2023; Dec 2022; Nov 2022; Oct 2022; Sep 2022

▪ Highlights from the 2022 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival [Dec 2022]

Cinematograph Magazine | Iran

▪ A Thoroughly Documentary Cinema: Space and Time in the Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (Persian) [Mar 2022] – Print   

Daily Bruin | USA

▪ Just because the Academy thinks a picture is best doesn’t mean it is [Feb 2020]

Film Matters | USA

▪ Wanda review [Dec 2020]

▪ A Still Cinema: Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Still Life [Sep 2020]                        

Filmkhaneh Magazine | Iran

▪ The Journey, Not the Destination: On von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express (Persian) [Oct 2019] – Print

Vitascope | Iran

▪ “Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet” by Jean-André Fieschi [Sep 2019] (Translator)

Senses of Cinema | Australia

▪ Contributor to the World Poll: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.

Honar-e cinema Magazine | Iran

▪ Jim Jarmusch: A Career in Review (Persian) [Jul 2014]

Naghdefarsi | Iran ▪ Cubism on Film: A Review of Fish & Cat (Persian) [Sep 2013] – Print