Selected Texts and Press about Tara Najd Ahmadi’s Work:
– The Commonplace Unravelled: The Films of Tara Najd Ahmadi by Niyaz Saghari, 2024. Click here to read.
-Out of Conversations with Friends: Personal is Political in Tara Najd Ahmadi’s Films. Anja Banko, Ljubljana Short Film Festival’s Catalogue, 2023. Click here to read.
-Measuring the Level of Resistance: Short Films by Tara Najd Ahmadi, by Jed Rapfogel, Anthology Film Archives, 2023. Click here to read.
-My Sleepless Friends by Claus Philipp, sixpackfilm online catalogue, 2022. Click here to read.
-“Making Overlooked Stories Visible on Film” (Spregledane zgodbe želim v svojih filmih narediti vidne) by Žiga Fabjan, KINO!, NO.36, 2018. Click here to preview.
-A Week with Azar by Dominik Kamalzadeh, sixpackfilm online catalogue, 2018. Click here to read.
-“Approaching Reality: Documentaries from the Newsreel Front” by Nace Zavrl, FeKK Ljubljana catalogue. 2018. Click here to read.
-“Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts and Traces Illuminated in the Archives” by Jacob Korczynski, International Contemporary Art; Winter 2015; 124.
-“The Protagonist: Narrative & Animation” by Shannon Fitzgerald, 2014. Click here to read.
-“The Protagonist” by Suzanne Szucs, Afterimage; the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 41, No. 3. 2013 Click here for preview.
سه گانه ای در باب خوردن، نگاهی به نمایشگاه سه دقیقه بدون سر تارانجداحمدی در گالری طراحان آزاد، نوید جهانبخش، آفتاب نت دیلی، 2013
-“Mainsite Contemporary Arts Showcases Six Artists on the Rise” by Susan Grossman, Art Focus Oklahoma, January/February 2011.
-“Momentum Tulsa Spotlight 2010” by Kelsey Karper, Art Focus Oklahoma, September/October 2010.
Selected Texts Written by Tara Najd Ahmadi:
-“The Incomplete: Art, Politics and Remembering the Past” In Counter-Memories: Memoryscapes in Iranian Cinema, edited by Matthias Wittmann and Ute Holl, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
-“Archive of Incomplete” “Forty Years of Gender and Sexual Politics in Iran: Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution” special issue, edited by Alborz Ghandehari and Azadeh Tajpour, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
-“Spectatorship, Postponed”, in Film Undone; Elements of Latent Cinema, Edited by Philip Widmann, Archive Books.
-“Une Cart Postal de Téhéran; À propos du Festival « Cinéma vérité »”, in Hors Champ online cinema review.
-“Unfinished: Film and Revolution in 1979.” In Image-Rebellion: Militant Documentary Films on the Battlefield of May 1968, edited by Nace Zavrl, Ljubljana: Slovenska Kinoteka.