Suicide, Abuse Batter Iranian Women in Banned Film: Interview
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A young woman in black paces on a rooftop. She looks to the blue sky, at the empty street. She jumps.
In the hands of Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat, the suicide turns into an escape from an arranged marriage. The woman falls in slow motion and leaves no blood where she lands. Later she becomes a politically active ghost.