Un-historicized Blackness:
Tracing the “Afro-Iranians”
through Visual Archives
“For us, that of all the arts, the most
important is
“The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept, any idea of class,
any political or tactical slogan, without recourse to the help of a rather suspect
dramatic or psychological past.”
— “Sergei Eisenstein”