The son of actress Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, “the Meryl Streep,” filmmaker Nariman Hamed is directing a documentary, Shirin, about the artist Shirin Neshat, with animation by Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is an unusual project in many ways. Adapting a novel for the screen is commonplace but adapting a graphic novel is less common. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the graphic novel and director of the film, made a deliberate decision to use traditional animation techniques giving the film Persepolis a very distinctive visual style. Marjane says that part of her decision to use traditional animation is because more high-tech techniques would look dated. Do you agree with this? She also says that traditional animation was chosen because, like people, it has imperfections.
