Movie Details
Original Language:English
Tooba
12 min
Her poetic twochannel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran in which Tooba the sacred tree of paradise offers shelter and sustenance to those in need Neshats video places a woman within a groove in the trunk of a large fig tree symbolising its soul They stand alone in a stonewalled garden set in a mountainous landscape Men and women draw near and enter the enclosure seeking refuge as the Toobawoman disappears into the Toobatree The piece is ambiguous Who has agency Is it the crowd who invade the garden or the treewoman who draws them towards her like a magnet Tooba is dedicated to Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipour whose novel Women without Men concerns five women sojourning in a garden one of whom is transformed into a tree
DirectorShirin Neshat
