A Q&A with artist and director Shirin Neshat about her 2017 film Looking for Oum Kulthum, a visually dazzling film-within-a-film about an Iranian artist-filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum Kulthum. Neshat's heroine, Mitra, struggles as she dares to cross lines in a conservative, male-dominated society—reflecting the obstacles faced by Neshat and Kulthum themselves. Copresented with Otis College of Art and Design