Out of the Iranian rubble into the cinematic frame
Smuggled out of the Iran Iraq War at age four with exactly two suitcases, Arash Sedighi channels the gritty survival of his refugee childhood into uncompromising British cinema
Latest Provocations & Heresies
Notes from the underground [part 1/2]
The water coursing through the basement tubes calls me back to my work. It’s probably toilet water I’m hearing. The noise is reassuring.
O Iranians!
The antidote to a scorpion’s poison is not the venom of a snake.
The Talking Nipple and the Sucking Throat: The Mother’s Gaze <—> Desire and Digestion of Oral Obsessions
A visceral, ritualistic essay-performance exploring motherhood, obsession, and the obscene.
The Whore of Babylon
Get lost with the whore of Babylon.
Barbarizsm
Barbara van Ittersum works between staged fiction and portraiture and creates psychologically and psychopathically charged visual scenes called Barbarizsm.
The Divine Banana
Given everything that is happening, and I say this without a hint of irony, I’m saving the irony for the year 2026.
The World’s Busiest Natural Reserve Has Never Charged Admission. Let’s Pay Now.
Before Iran began charging for the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was charging Iran — and no one was paying.
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BECOMING A PAINTER
The safe way concerns 99.999% of painters. These have been drawn into art by the irresistible odor of its prestige, for the prestige of painting is unsurpassed.
You Kissed Tina & I Cringed
I kissed her back with the hesitation of a broken record, skipping on the same sweet lie. Just one more hit!
Good dog
I guide his hands towards my breasts, my ass, allow his dick to only knock gently on the entrance of my cunt. Easy, easy, I whisper.
Wayne Horse / Willehad Eilers
Explore Willehad Eilers bold crude style and surreal social satire revealing 7 bizarre obsessions shaping modern society.
THE UNSAFE JOURNAL
Art is dead. It was dead on arrival. You killed it.
The Man Who Knelt Down (In Defense of Artists Living in Iran)
“Those Iranians in the diaspora who do not understand the tragic nature of life easily draw moral lines.”
Grotesque & Divine
View Full Gallery →Visual documentation of the beautiful and the damned
