Tehran in Photographs Iran
2008, 54min.
Script/Dir.: Robert Safarian, Dir. of Phot.: Mohammad Reza Teymouri, Sound: Majid Asheghi, Edit.: Robert Safarian, Majid Asheghi.
How was the image of Tehran registered in photographs? The film tries to answer this question and comes to the conclusion that the image of the relatively small town of a century ago and the megacity of today is the outcome of three histories: history of the development of the city itself; history of the development of the technology of photography from early huge cameras to the tiny digital ones of today and the evolution of our attitude towards photography, which was considered a technological instrument in the early decades after its invention, but has increasingly become to be known as art. The film is based on photographs from various periods and is contemplation on man’s love of holding on to pictures and immortalizing himself.
Production Company
City Image Institute
| Safarian, Robert Robert Safarian (born 1954, Tehran, Iran)
Education: Cinema (IRIB College in Tehran); Persian Literature. Translator of the following books from English into Persian: Semiotics of Cinema by Christien Metz, Humanism in Film Criticism by Robin Wood, An Introduction to Film History by David Bordwell and Christian Thompson. Author of the following books: Analysis of Michaelangelo Antonioni's L'Aventura
Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's ‘The Shadow of a Doubt’. Author of numerous film reviews and articles on short films and documentary cinema in Iranian Press. Teaching Film Analysis in Sureh Film School in Isfahan. Member of selection committee of the second and the third and member of Jury of the fourth Kish Documentary FF, member of selection committee of Tehran International Short FF in 2003 and 2004. Editor of biweekly magazine Handes published in Armenian in Tehran.
Member of editorial board of Literary Handes and Art Quarterly published in Armenian in Tehran.
Filmography
Inversion (2006), Joft Shish (2007), Tehran in Photographs (2008), 14 Aban, The Day of Fire (2008)
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