Sepideh Farsi

Biography

Sepideh Farsi (Persian: سپیده فارسی) is an Iranian filmmaker, born in 1965 in Tehran. Born in 1965 in Tehran, to a father working in civil engineering and an unemployed mother, Sepideh Farsi participated in numerous demonstrations and photographed them. She was arrested at the age of 16 for hiding a political dissident and imprisoned for eight months in Machad. Upon her release, she was banned from university and went into exile in France. She arrived in Paris in 1984 and studied mathematics. At 19, she was ultimately more drawn to the visual arts. She began creating photographs before makin... Show more

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