Shirin Neshat.

I thought her videos were very beautiful and I normally have no interest in video work. I found the scene where the women were shown running around the desert being liberated was interesting----I was glad to hear her talk about it or I would not have understood that thats what she was trying to show......I think because a combination of fear of Islam/western association of long black dress with witches that I found my reaction to the scene was one of fear. The woman looked like wild scary witches to me in it. That was sort of an interesting thing to juxtapose in my mind---I mean the idea of me reacting to liberated women and scary otherworld witches.