Description: This is Pirooz Kalayeh's official site. It includes his artwork, films, books, and webisodes.
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TUBI Pirooz Kalayeh is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore themes around race, human rights, technology, and poetics. His latest documentary feature, SOMETIMES I DREAM IN FARSI, examines a traumatic racist incident in his childhood and how Gestalt Therapy and discussions with friends and family can offer a path forward for children and adults who have had similar experiences. The film world premiered at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh, was awarded Best U.S. Documentary Feature by the New York Independe
His pandemic-era film, 100 FILMS , sources and direct s talent virtually, resulting in what curator Roger M. Buergel describes “as an exercise in pattern-reading” and an understanding in “how the pandemic affects…each one of us…as humanity, as a planet, as life.”
His upcoming documentary feature MY ROOM IN TEHRAN IS CALLED AM ERICA details a female Iranian artist's journey to a life without censorship in modern day Iran.