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Neshat—who is divorced and lives with longtime collaborator and boyfriend Shoja Azari, an Iranian-American filmmaker—speaks excitedly of upcoming screenings at Sundance and in Dubai, the film’s first airing in an Islamic state. She’s unsure of her next project, but one thing is certain: It will be a departure from anything she has done before. “This idea of finding a medium or style and repeating yourself, I’m totally against that,” she says, noting that she didn’t know anything about photography or video when she took them up. “I think this has become my pattern: I seek some new territory, arrive at it and do it until I feel exhausted. I like starting over.”
