Bullshit walks money talks. Attraversando Las Vegas

The National Cinema Museum hosts the world premiere of an exhibit composed of forty large-format photographs taken by Amir Naderi in the Nevada desert and Las Vegas. The photos document his coming to terms with one of the city-symbols of American culture and his progressive familiarity with the soul of the city. From the panoramas of the bare, endless desert to photos of Las Vegas, the capital of fake. The images portray the city’s streets with all their contradictions and paradoxes and end with the final tesserae of its life cycle, garbage.
Amir Naderi, along with Abbas Kiarostami, is considered one of the directors who has most contributed to the rebirth of Iranian cinema and its circulation outside the country. The “American” Naderi has begun a new cycle of experimental films that is closely tied to cities, in particular to Manhattan. His movies analyze in depth the daily and hidden aspects of the city.
To complete the exhibit and the retrospective, a book has been published, “Il vento e la città. Il cinema di Amir Naderi,” by Massimo Causo and Grazia Paganelli.