Omid zendegani actor iranian revolution

Part of Issue #2: Cinema and/vs. Politics

Revolutions happen because small changes and reforms are no longer desired; revolutions are a plea for drastic changes.

When revolutions take place, there usually follows a short period of purgatory or bliss—depending how you look at it—when nothing is clear and people live in a grey period, and afterwards the changes start at full force—again, usually—and everything changes.

Omid zendegani actor iranian revolution

Anyone who has followed or experienced any revolution knows that these changes are as much political as they are cultural. In the new century, cinema—the vanguard of all established arts—undoubtedly undergoes transformation if a revolution happens.

One may wonder why. The reason is that cinema—and television of course—are mass media easily accessible and stealthily powerful in  affecting the minds of masses that consume them. Revolutions change leaders, political approaches, i