Marzieh Meshkini

wasted on narrative “blank space”. But what happens to this model when the story a film strives to tell is a story not of action but of wandering? This question is raised by Iranian filmmaker Marzieh Meshkini in her 2004 film Stray Dogs. In order to tell this gripping tale of two Afghani children living on the streets of Kabul, Meshkini employs some tools of conventional cinema such as symbolism and allusion, but deliberately manipulates the pace of her film, creating a…