And now our feature presentation: the feminist Iranian horror western “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night/Dokhtari Dar šab Tanhâ be Xâne Miravad” (2014) (https://youtu.be/9877-xDiOJI?si=QDOCzau72v53Jm0a) directed by Iranian-American creative Ana Lily Amirpour
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Masuka the cat instantly became a star after being in “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”(2014). Her human, Sina Sayyah, was both the film’s producer and the late cousin of director Ana Lily Amirpour. Both Sina Sayyah and Masuka passed away in 2018 within months of each other. May their memories always be cherished.
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“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (2014) was shot over the course of 24 days in Kern County, California. Using anamorphic lenses director Ana Lily Amirpour utilized a mix of cinematography inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and German Expressionism. With a cast and crew that’s largely of Iranian descent and the film’s dialogue being entirely in Farsi, it is the considered to be the first Middle Eastern vampire film.
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Ana Lily Amirpour (July 25, 1976-)🇮🇷🇺🇸 is a British-born Iranian-American filmmaker, writer and artist. “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” (2014) is her first feature length film. It won multiple awards upon its release. She’s since worked on major genre tv shows including Guillermo Del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” and announced a project based on the work of writer Joe Hill
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“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (2014) examines multiple areas of feminism but especially the concepts of The Monstrous-Feminine (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/monstrousfeminine/defining-the-monstrous-feminine) and the reversal of the male gaze w/r/t/ Iranian culture (see: her wearing The Chador, her “hunting” solo at night, etc)
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