Shirin Neshat, Passage DVD, 450h
A still from the DVD version of artist Sherin Neshat’s film “Passage”. A desert scene reveals a young girl in the foreground, back to the camera, kneeling behind a tall mound of stones. A long unbroken line of blazing flames stretches away from her toward the horizon, curling around two separate groups of figures all clad in black. One group, at center, is huddled on the ground, while the group to the right stands in a procession. The ground is rocky and uneven, and the sun sets beyond the distant mountains. Whether the reddish glow of the scene is from the fire or the twilight is impossible to tell.