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HBO Sets Release Date for ‘A Revolution on Canvas,’ a Doc About One of Iran’s Most Seminal, Exiled Artists (EXCLUSIVE)
HBO sets release date for 'A Revolution on Canvas,' a doc about one of Iran’s most seminal artists
The 95-minute docu directed by his daughter, Sara Nodjoumi, and her husband, Till Schauder (“When God Sleeps”), is an art-heist-thriller-meets-portrait doc that recounts how Nickzad was forced to flee Iran in 1980 due to the controversial nature of his paintings on display at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. During the search, Nodjoumi, drawing on conversations with both her father and mother, celebrated artist Nahid Hagigat, grapples with complex feelings and mysteries tied to her own upbringing in Iran and America. “A Revolution on Canvas,” highlights the dangers of extremism which is on the rise everywhere in the world, and the importance of freedom of expression especially in the arts, says Nodjoumi.
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