Mostafa Heravi (Persian: مصطفی هروی; born in 1974 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer and visual artist.
[3] In 2009, he started to make music videos, the first of which was for exiled, avant-garde Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo,[4] named "Gladiators"[5][6],[5][6].
[13] The work is a music documentary written and directed by Ala Mohseni which is a review of forty-something-year of Iran's history after Islamic revolution along with the Kiosk band tours.
[14] Heravi's first collaboration with Kiosk was in 2008 in which he made the official music video for their version of Ay from bia (Persian: ای یارم بیا) which features Mohsen Namjoo as guest singer.
It depicted Gohar Eshghi sitting still on the same stool along with the mother of Sattar Beheshti, who was an Iranian worker and blogger arrested for his online writing in detention, then killed under torture.
[31] He has published works focusing on the "woman" in recent years, which have had widespread repercussions in social networks and have received various responses.
On 6 October 2015, in The Road Ahead, a festival held by Zamaneh Foundation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Heravi's photos were exhibited along with a 10-minute video of him about Iranian influencers on social media and their followers which portrays bitter truths about emerging superficial role models.
[33][34] Mostafa Heravi exhibited his photography in Stories for Freedom Festival Rotterdam in May and June 2019, an event in which other prominent Iranian artists performed, including: Hamed Ahmadi (writer), Shahyar Ghanbari (poet), Sahand Sahebdivani (storytelling) & Faarjam (music).