- Assist. Prof. Dr.
- Farshad Asgarikia
Bio
He graduated in filmmaking from Iran Broadcasting University and obtained an M.A. in cinema directing from Iran University of Art, Faculty of Cinema and Theatre. Since 2000, he has taught cinema and photography courses at Iranian universities, and he has served on the board at International Soore University, Iran. His Ph.D. research in 2019 focused on war photography. He has participated in national and international photography exhibitions and has created several short films, TV educational programs, and a documentary feature film, “FATEMI”, which was screened nationwide in Iran in September 2025. He began working as an assistant professor at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design, Northern Cyprus, in September 2024. His last photography exhibition was held in the TRNC in April 2025.
SDG Areas Worked
Research Areas
Methodology, Art Research, Photography and Cinema Criticism, Analytical History Theory
| Degree | University | Graduated Year |
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| Bachelor | Iran Broadcasting University | 1994 |
| Master | Tehran University of Art | 1998 |
| PhD | Tehran University of Art | 2019 |
| Title | University | Area | Year |
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| Assist. Prof. Dr. | Soore International University | ART | 2019 |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. | ARUCAD University | ART | 2024 |
Articles published in peer reviewed international journals (SCI,SSCI,Arts and Humanities)
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Other Publications
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“Pathology of Art Academic Education”, Binab Magazine | 2003 |
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“The Evolution of Painting Schools” Rahpouyeh-e Honar | 2006 |
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“An Inquiry in Analytic History Theory by Robin George Collingwood”, Journal of "Historical Perspective & Historiography" | 2016 |
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“A Comparative Study of Photo and Written History of the Iraq War Imposed on Iran (Between 1980-1982)”, Journal: “Rahpooyeh Honar Quarterly” | 2018 |
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“Explaining the method of analyzing the summative content analysis in extracting the meanings and the contents of the photo and text”, Journal of Eghbal Lahoori Institute |
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“How the Afghan people are represented in Iranian cinema based on the views of Stuart Hall”, Rahpooyeh Honar-haye Namayeshi Quarterly” | 2021 |
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“A STUDY OF THE REPRESENTATION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN IRANIAN CINEMA AFTER THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION BASED ON THE VIEWS OF STUART HALL”, Rahpooyeh Honar-haye Namayeshi Quarterly” | 2022 |
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Translated an article “How TV Covers War” by mark christian miller, Cinéma vérité publication | 2002 |
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Articles published in other peer reviewed international journal
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Papers presented in National conferences and printed as proceedings
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“An inquiry in war photography as a subgenre of documentary photography”, National Conference on Representation of the Discourse of the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense | 2017 |
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Papers presented in international conferences and printed as proceedings
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Books and books chapters published internationally
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| Joint translation of the book named “Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery”, International College of Tehran University | 2014 |  |
| Joint translation of the book named “Make Believe in Film and Fiction”, Samt Publication | 2016 | |
| “A Survey into Edward Branigan's Point of View Theory as a Method for Analyzing Cinematic Narrative (by Examining the two short films "Animal" and "Retouch")” in a book named “Narration in the short film” Iranian Youth Cinema Association Publication | 2020 | |
Doctorate Thesis Supervised
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Master Thesis Supervised
| Master Thesis |
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| - Reza Ashourifar - Play "The Happiness of Translating to the Narrative of the Period" - 2010 |
| - Hossein Heidari - Screenplay of "Glass Iris" - 2012 |
| - Maryam Sadat Ghazi - "Using Literary Components of Iranian Humor in Advertising Animation" - 2013 |
| - Mojdeh Ghazanfari - "Study of the effect of neorealism in the fictional cinema of the recent triad in Iran with emphasis on the works of Abbas Kiarostami, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Kianoosh Ayari, and Asghar Farhadi" - 2014 |
| - Saeed Habibi - "Study of Cinema Representation in Cinema with a Poststructuralist Approach in Iranian Fiction Cinema" - 2015 |
| - Mehdi Mushfegh - "Aesthetic Transformation in the New Documentary Cinema of the 1980s in Iran" - 2015 |
| - Fatemeh Zahraei - "A Study of the Expressive and Structural Features of Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema from the Perspective of Author Andrew Saris" - 2015 |
| - Saman Valinejad - "Schizophrenia of Cinema (How to Read Movies in Deleuze)"- 2015 |
| - Seyed Siavash Ebrahimi - "Study of Iranian street cinema as a subspecies of drama" - 2015 |
| - Samaneh Fatemi - "The Intertextual Impact of Social Photography on Contemporary Iranian Painting" - 2016 |
| - Sanaz Khorsandi Karimi- "Character typology in the top films of Fajr Film Festival from the beginning to 2015" - 2016 |
| - Azam Nourpour - "The intertextual presence of photography in contemporary Iranian painting" - 2016 |
| - Reza Tajmir Riahi – “The Analysis of Revolution in Progression of Tragedy Death and the Birth of the Cinematic Apparatus” – 2016 |
| - Mohsen Akbari – “The evolution of how to represent marital relations in Iranian cinema after the Islamic Revolution” – 2016 |
| - Ronak Ranji – “Aesthetics of Experimental Cinema and Study of its Components in Iranian Cinema from the 2000s to the Present” – 2016 |
| - Elham Bateni – “Structural Comparative Study of Experimental Cinema and Video Art based on Neo-formalism Approach in Iran 2011-2016” – 2016 |
| - Hadi Laziri – “Study of the Impact of Post-Structuralism Approach on the Methods of Presentation and Displaying Photographs” – 2016 |
| - Amin Dorostkar – “Semiotic analysis of the concept of reality cinema by studying the words of Mohammad Reza Aslani” – 2016 |
| - Hanieh Nazemi – “The influence of Abrahamic religions on the post-apocalyptic cinema with the study of 10 selected films” – 2017 |
| - Hosein Tavazoni Zadeh – “Transformation of language and cinematic image in the path of creating unconventional productions of Iranian theater (focusing on the works of several contemporary directors)” – 2017 |
| - Ali Mahdipour – “Study of Cinematic Elements in Best Movies of Iran based on Fajr Film Festival between 2011-2015 Period” – 2017 |
| - Hosein Abdollahi – “Components of Modern and Postmodern Narrative in Cinematic Films of Iranian Art and Cinema Experience (2014 production)” – 2017 |
| - Parviz Amini – “A study on the reflection of social status and social class of Iranian New Wave filmmakers on their cinematic works” – 2017 |
| - Saeed Massahi – “Influences of Music Video Aesthetics on Cinema, about Academy Award Nominates of the 1980s and 1990’s” – 2017 |
| - Mojtaba Mirshekari – “Structure of a fantasy genre in Iranian cinema” – 2017 |
| - Abbas Malek Mohammadi – “How the working class is represented in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema” – 2017 |
| - Zahra Naderi Darshoori – “The intertextuality analysis in portraitures and graphic effects of Iran's first-generation graphic designers” - 2017 |
| - Reza Davarpanah – “Analyze to Concept of Reality of The Picture In Documentary Whit Emphasis On Mocumentary Style, According to Jean Baudrillard & Marshall McLuhan Theories” – 2018 |
| - Hamoon Shirazi – “Stylistic Features of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s Films” – 2018 |
| - Saeede Zare Saryazdi – “The Role of Audience to Understand the Bahram Tavakoli’s Works, From the Aspect of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics (case study movies: Pa Berahne Dar Behesht, Parse Dar Meh, Inja Bedone Man, Asmane Zarde kam Omgh, Bigane, Man Diego Maradona Hastam” – 2018 |
| - Fateme Sadat Ghotb – “Poetic rhetorical elements in Ali Hatami's fictional cinema” – 2018 |
| - Amir Hosein Kotobzadeh – “Hermeneutic reading of the process of receiving a film based on light based on Gadamer's views (a case study of the works filmed by Roger Dickens)” – 2018 |
| - Nima Kohandani – “Feasibility Study on Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt) for Adaption to Produce Persian Fantasy Films” – 2019 |
| - Navid Shayesteh – “Analyzing Ali Fereiduni’s photos of the Iran-Iraq war based on the social semiotic pattern of Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen” – 2019 |
| - MohammadTaha KazemNasab – “A Review of Acting Method in Asghar Farhadi’s Films based on Stanislavski’s System” - 2019 |
| - Abolfazl JahanMahin – “Studying Static and still in Illustration on Roy Andersson`s films” – 2019 |
| - Sahar Zaeri Amirani – “Representation of the Afghan people in Iranian cinema based on Stuart Hall's statement” – 2019 |
| - Kazhvan Abehesht – “Feasibility Study for Cinematic Adaptation of Classic Persian Texts to Make Children’s Film Based on Noel Brown’s Research (Case Study: Qabusnama)” – 2019 |
| - Farnaz Hadi Beyk – “Compositional interpretation of pre-and post-war photographs of Ahmad Alizadeh Nohi from Khuzestan based on Jillian Rose's theory” – 2019 |
| - Faryal Taghipour Samimi – “Analysis of Horror Genre in Iranian Cinema Based on Rick Altman's Semantic-Syntactic Approach” – 2019 |
| - Majid Bagherzadeh – “The phenomenology of Terence Malik cinema based on Merleau-Ponty's views” - 2019 |
| - Ferdows Khosravi Nezhad – “A study of the culture of the Lor people in the cinema of Nasser Gholamrezaei Claude Levi Strauss” – 2020 |
| - Roshanak Azari – “Explanation of the archetype of the myth of the journey of the hero Christopher Vogler in the works of Abbas Kiarostami” – 2020 |
| - Morteza Farhadnia – “Explaining and analyzing acting styles in front of a lens with a focal length of 85 (Case Study: Robert De Niro)” – 2020 |
| - Maede Slami – “An Analysis of Sassan Moayedi's Visual Narrative of Tehran’s Bombings during the Imposed Iraq-Iran War with Theo Van Leeuwen 's social semiotics approach” – 2020 |
| - Amin Roghani – “A Survey on Abbas Kiarostami's encountered with Reality through Mediation Adorno's aesthetic theory” – 2020 |
| - Mahmood Eydi – “Content analysis of Bahram Mohammadifard's photos from eight years of holy defense” – 2020 |
| - Mohammad Amin Roghani – "A Survey on Abbas Kiarostami's encounterment with reality through mediation Adorno's aesthetic theory" – 2020 |
| - Ghazal Nafar – “Analysis of cultural codes of ten best-selling films of art and experience from the beginning to the year 2020 based on the model of John Fisk” – 2020 |
| - Faramarz Ramezanian – “An analysis of the relationship between action and point of view (P.O.V) in cinema” – 2021 |
| - Maziar Khalighi – “An Analysis of Ernest Holzer's Photographs from the Orientalist Perspective of Edward Said and a Critique of Terry Burt” – 2021 |
| - Mohaddese Sadat Mousavi – “A study of the representation of religious minorities in Iranian cinema after the Islamic Revolution based on the views of Stuart Hall” – 2021 |
| - Mohammad Hosein Shamsi – “Investigating the components of magical realism in cinema based on the views of Alejandro Charpentier” – 2021 |
| - Maziar Asgari – “A Study of the Grotesque Elements in the Emir Kusturica’s Cinema” – 2022 |
| - Hojatollah Nazari – “Discourse, Identity, Clergy: An Analysis of the Discoursive Semiology of the Clergy in Iranian Cinema of the 1990s and 2000s” – 2022 |
| - Yacine Pourazizi – "Investigation of the emergence of the sacred issue in cinematic expression based on Mircea Eliade’s opinions in Majid Majidi films" – 2023 |
| - Arian Sarlak – "Stylistic analysis of Alfred Yaghoobzadeh's photos of the Iran-Iraq war based on Gillian Rose's theory of Compositional Interpretation" – 2023 |
| - AmirHossein Goshtasbi Rad – "Speculations on the Applied Aesthetics of Iranian Cinema Based on an Anthological Study of Persian Paintings from the School of Herat to the Second School of Tabriz" – 2024 |
| - Vahid Sarparast – "Hegemony in the social Documentary Photography Works of the 1390s in the Kerman province" – 2025 |
| - Ghazaleh Taeb – "Ethnographic Study of Reza Deghati's Photographs of Afghans Based on Claude Lévi-Strauss's Theories" – 2025 |
| - Sirvan Amani – "An Ethnographic Study of Documentary Photographs of the Kurdish Golbaghi Tribe, from the Constitutional Era to the End of the Pahlavi Period, Based on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Theory" – 2025 |
| Projects |
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| Writing and directing documentary film 16mm named “Caravansary Ghalamdani” in 70 minutes, Hamedan, Iran, 1990. |
| Writing, directing, and editing a story movie named “About Reality” in 20 minutes, 1994. |
| Editing 35 mm Animation named “Stoup” in 7 minutes, Hamedan, Iran, 1996. |
| Writing and directing a 16 mm story movie, “Return” in 45 minutes, Hamedan, Iran, 1998. |
| Writing, directing, editing, and research supervisor of the “Jadouy-e Tasvir” series for TV Channel 4, in 585 minutes, Tehran, 2002. |
| Directing and edited Weekly Training Program named “Law and Justice” TV Channel 1, in 4500 minutes, Tehran, 2001-2009. |
| Curator for Soore Student’s Photo Exhibition in Mehr Gallery, 2006. |
| Production management in Iran, a joint project from the score university of Iran and Konrad wolf film school in Germany production of student films (support by the Artistic Department of Islamic Development Organization, TV stations named: Arte from France and ZDF from Germany), seven short movies in 50 minute, Tehran, Birjand, Naishaboor, Esfahan, Bandar-e Abbas and Minab island, 2006. |
| Directing and editing the seven-part series “Gathering of Justice and Legal” in 315 minutes, Tehran, 2007. |
| Directing and editing the seven-part series “Face of Justice” in 210 minutes, Tehran, 2007. |
| Writing and directing of the Video-Music named “Man Khaneh Nemidanam” in 6 minutes, 2014. |
| Collective Photography Exhibition in Imam Ali Museum, 2014. |
| Solo Exhibition of Photography “91 years Old of My Father”, in Dena Gallery, 2016. |
| Collective Photography Exhibition “Human Is a Difficulty of Duty: Ability of Loving and To Be Loved”, in Dena Gallery, 2017. |
| Collective Photography Exhibition in “Gothenburg International Poetry Festival #12”, Sweden, 2017. |
| Curator for Soore Student’s Photo Exhibition “The Suspended Step of Stork” in Ayeh Gallery, 2017. |
| Collective Photography Exhibition “Az Chehelom ta Chehel” in Ayeh Gallery, 2017. |
| Collective Photography&Poetry Exhibition “Co-narrative” in Dena Gallery, 2018. |
| Collective Photography Exhibition “Beautiful Middle East” in Gothenburg Central Library Gallery, Sweden, 2018. |
| Virtual Collective Photography Exhibition “In praise of loneliness” in memorial of Abbass Kiarostami, 2021. |
| Writing, Researching, and Co-Directing the Documentary Feature Film "Fatemi" about the Life of the Martyr Dr. Hossein Fatemi in 85 minutes, ready to release. 2018 to 2022. |
| Solo Exhibition of Photography “… And This is My Mother”, in Sevda Art Gallery, Northern Cyprus, Girne, 2025. |
| Acceptance of Artworks in “The Common Language of Aesthetics: International Symposium on Fine Arts and Literature” held by Ankara University of Music and Fine Arts, 2025. |
| Awards |
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| Appreciation for doctoral dissertation entitled "Analysis of the historical content of Photography of the Iraq-Iran War" in the first biennial selection of research work on the sacred defense and resistance as a "commendable dissertation", 2020 |
| Position | Explain | Dates |
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| Assistant Director of Cinema Department | Soore International University | 2000 - 2003 |
| Manager of “Roshd Center”, Entrepreneurship and Communication with society | Soore International University | 2007 - 2008 |
| Head of Cinema Department (BA and MA) | Soore International University | 2008 - 2009 |
| Head of Graduated Studies | Soore International University | 2010 - 2019 |
| Project Name | Project Date | Role on Project | SDG Areas |
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| Presenting "The Mobile Photography Workshop for Afghan Teachers of Farhang School in Tehran" | 28/03/2022 | Educator |
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