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Shiva Sadegh Asadi

Born in Tehran in 1983, Shiva Sadegh Asadi is an Iranian painter and filmmaker. Her animated films have been screened and admired worldwide. She gradually developed her early painterly style by combining it with stop motion techniques, using objects and pieces of paper to create deformed shapes and fragmented space, combined with the simultaneous depiction of different viewing angles, perspectives and times in single shots, similar to her paintings. She describes her paintings as the most inspiring source for her animated films. In both her paintings and films, she deeply focuses on humanity’s inner self, dealing with themes such as dreams, dark fantasies, femininity, abuse, family, relationship and animal symbols as metaphors.