Shirin Neshat

Simin, from Land of Dreams series , 2019

'Simin, from Land of Dreams series' (2019) shows the protagonist of the two-channel film 'Land of Dreams' (2021). The film follows an Iranian woman, Simin—Neshat’s alter ego—as she visits a small American community to photograph the local residents and record their dreams. Disguised as an art student, Simin employs a methodology that mirrors Neshat’s own process. Simin then returns to The Colony, an uncanny and secretive Iranian society tucked within a mountain whose members are occupied with receiving, selecting, and analyzing American citizens’ dreams. In hearing the interviewees’ desires and fears—which hardly differ from Simin’s own—cultural and political divisions start to crumble.