Media
Explore the archive by form — from painting and film to music, opera, games, and beyond. Each medium gathers every work in that form.
All Media
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Machine-generated reinterpretations of the epic, made with image and video models.
Animation made frame by frame, whatever the technique — drawn, cel, cut-out, puppet and stop-motion retellings of the Book of Kings.
Choreographed bodies enacting Persian myth.
The epic adapted for young readers.
Naqqāli-era narrative painting of the bazaar and teahouse.
Screen-native illustration and new media.
Stage, shadow, and marionette traditions.
Ink, pencil, and editorial illustration.
Textile, couture, and wearable storytelling.
Feature, documentary, and experimental cinema.
Culinary interpretations and edible narrative.
Public walls and the civic landscape.
Composition, song, and sound inspired by the epic.
Sung drama staging the Shahnameh.
Canvas, miniature, and graphic art.
Lens-based reinterpretation and documentation.
Political and ideological imagery drawing on the epic.
Three-dimensional form and installation.
Oral naqqāli and contemporary narrative performance.
Interactive and playable interpretations.