Twice a week throughout the month of April, the Fine Arts Library will host a series of informal screenings of experimental film and video art from the UVA Library collection. Drop in and out as your schedule allows to see selections from a century of art of the moving image.

On Tuesday, April 29 in its ground-floor video niche, the Fine Arts Library will screen Shirin (2008), an exploration of gendered spectatorship from acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. In Shirin, Kiarostami turns his camera on the cinema audience, closely examining the reactions of women watching a movie adaptation of Shirin and Khosrow, a twelfth-century romantic poem by Nezami Ganjavi.