Curriculum Vitae

Freelance Filmmaker & Photographer

Independent documentary and commercial filmmaking, photography commissions, and visual storytelling projects. Roles across pre-production, direction, editing, and cinematography.

Photography: Product Advertisement Project

Includes about 90 photos of sliding automatic door products, frames, automatic door motors, control boxes, etc.

Volunteer: Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival

Managed screenings at Cinema Modernissimo and Piazza Maggiore for this prestigious international film festival dedicated to film restoration and history.

Jury Member: Visioni Italiane

Served on the jury coordinated by Edoardo Gabbriellini, evaluating contemporary Italian cinema.

Volunteer: Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival

Managed screenings at Dams-lab Cinema for this prestigious international film festival dedicated to film restoration and history.

Volunteer: Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival

Managed screenings at Dams-lab Cinema for this prestigious international film festival dedicated to film restoration and history.

Photography Collection: Lines Dance

Year-long photography project documenting urban life across Iranian cities, exploring themes of solitude and cultural transition.

Director: Bewildered (Documentary Short)

Documentary following an Afghan migrant's final day in Iran, exploring themes of displacement and economic crisis.

Assistant Director: Soft Tone (Short Film)

100-second experimental film exploring isolation through the journey of a desert turtle.

MA in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics

Advanced studies focusing on Italian literature, European literary cultures, linguistics, film studies, and visual culture.

B.S.C in Chemical Engineering

Specialization in Petrochemical Engineering.

High School Diploma

Ranked 1st among 81 students (Pre-University, 2015)
Ranked 1st among 83 students (3rd Grade, 2014)

Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament — OPES Bologna Futsal

Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament • Best Player of the Match for 9 matches.

Best Player of the Match — CSI Bologna Futsal

Best Player of the Match for 2 matches.

Isfahan Photography Festival Participation

Minimalist Photography Awards Participation

Vice President of Safir NGO

President of Engineering Department Students' Union

Led student advocacy organization managing welfare affairs and educational planning partnerships.

Member of Film and Literature Club

Film and Literature Club is ascribed to a place that students gather around and watch movies and read different types of novels and books and discuss them, also participate in several cinema and literature courses.

Presenter of Internship Conference — Safir NGO

Best Goalkeeper in University's Soccer League

Looking and Emptiness: The Male Gaze in Blow-Up

Close reading of Antonioni's Blow-Up using Laura Mulvey and John Berger's theories of the male gaze and gendered economy of vision. Examines how Thomas's photographic gaze structures and ultimately fails to control the image, arguing the film functions as a meta-cinematic meditation on the limits of visual mastery.

Visibility and Incompleteness: Staging Pirandello

Analysis of Six Characters in Search of an Author through its visual language rather than narrative alone. Traces how recurring staging choices — curtains, shadows, costumes — reveal that Pirandello's Characters exist only through their visibility, and how directors across decades have interpreted this fundamental condition of theatrical presence.

Italian Minds in Politics

Comparative study of Machiavelli and Gramsci as the two defining forces of Italian political thought. Examines how Machiavelli's concept of virtù and realpolitik in The Prince shaped Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony and the Modern Prince five centuries later.

Mad Men S2E10: Scene Analysis

Close analysis of the Betty-Glenn scene in Mad Men S2E10 as the emotional pivot of the season. Reads Glenn dressed in Don's clothes as Betty's silent farewell to an idealised image of her husband, and examines how the scene's deliberate absence of music, heightened framing, and structural positioning make it the knot on which the entire season turns.

Existentialist and Cinema

Ongoing critical series examining existentialist themes across films by Antonioni, Bergman, and Allen, and television series including The Sopranos, Mad Men, BoJack Horseman, and Rick and Morty. Explores how each work stages questions of authenticity, meaninglessness, and the confrontation with death.

Lost Dreams: Comparative Analysis

Comparative analysis of disillusionment and existential crisis across three landmark American series — The Sopranos, Mad Men, and BoJack Horseman. Examines how each protagonist constructs an identity around an unattainable ideal and how the collapse of that ideal becomes the dramatic engine of the narrative.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Existential Dread

Analysis of Tolstoy's novella as a study in existential isolation, self-deception, and the terror of a life lived inauthentically. Traces how Ivan Ilyich's gradual physical decline forces a reckoning with the emptiness of his social conformity, his loneliness within marriage, and the indifference of those around him to his dying.

Ruling in the Shadows: Machiavellian Strategy

Applies Machiavelli's political framework from The Prince to the Iranian Islamic Republic's hold on power. Identifies four core strategies — omnipresence in media, elimination of rivals, violent suppression of protest, and deflection through external conflict — and maps them against a century of Iranian political history from the 1953 coup through the Mahsa Amini uprising.

Mount Suribachi: The Power of Image

Examines how Rosenthal's flag-raising photograph at Iwo Jima was transformed from a battlefield image into a propaganda instrument for the 7th War Bond Drive, and how Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers exposes the manipulation of that image. Argues that media representations of conflict reshape collective memory independently of historical fact.

An Absurd View at Jacques and his Master

Reads Kundera's play as a formally and philosophically absurdist work in which characters remain deliberately vague, destinies are unknown, and repetition strips life of meaning. Analyses how the device of 'what was written on high' functions as a metaphor for a predetermined and purposeless existence, and how the play's humorous surface conceals a deeply bitter vision of human life.

The Death of Salesman: Alternative Perspectives

Re-reading of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman that moves beyond its canonical status as social critique to examine Willy Loman's tragedy as a crisis of imagination — the inability to conceive of a life outside the values handed to him by his culture.

Why Meursault is a Stranger

Study of Camus' L'Étranger as example of absurdism coupled with existentialism.

Italian Language Courses

Complete Italian Course: Learn Italian for Beginners • Italian Course for Intermediate

Coursera Specializations

Introduction to Philosophy • Film, Images & Historical Interpretation • Roman Art and Archaeology • Seeing Through Photographs • Modern and Contemporary Art and Design • What Is Contemporary Art? • Modern Art & Ideas • Fashion as Design

Diploma of Photography

Advanced training in commercial, food, portrait photography, lighting design, and post-production.

Film Directing, Criticism & Mythology

Comprehensive courses in directing principles, film criticism, and mythology studies.

Diploma of Film Critics

Intensive program analyzing European film school productions with director discussions and international cinema studies.

Diploma of Film Production

Comprehensive filmmaking: cinematography, cinema history, directing, photography, experimental cinema, editing, sound.