Parviz Nazerian — An Isfahani in New York (1972)
An Isfahani in New York is the story of a young man (Nosratolah Vahdat) who, at the request of his father (Arham Sadr) travels to New York searching for his playboy brother to find out whether he is seriously attending school. New York is a very strange place for the young Isfahani. During and after [...]
Hassan Shamaizadeh: Alive and well, thanks to the God!
Vintage Alborzian
Bahman Jalali (1944—2010)
Albert Lamorisse — Baadeh Sabah (1970)
The following is the concise version of the article in the current issue of Bidoun (#19, Noise) which tells the incredible story behind Albert Lamorisse’s lost film:
In 1970, the Shah’s government hires Albert Lamorisse to make a documentary film about Iran using his helicopter filming technology, Helivision
Lamorisse shoots a folky, poetic, beautiful film:
The ministry rejects [...]
Ostad Faramarz Payvar dies at 77
The Politics of Distribution
More Irangeles
Earlier this year we reprinted some photographs by Ron Kelley from the 1993 book Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles (UC Press) in Bidoun (#17, Flowers). Here are some favourites that didn’t make the cut (yanni the ones that are already scanned).
Did you know Ramesh is a Lesbian?
Just makes this clip 10000000x better. Pretty girls frolicking about and all. The unmistakable glimmer in her eyes at 2:02. The curious need to bring Nozar Arandi back on stage to tend to the boisterous babes. So good.
Download studio version of Asmar Asmar here
Serge Rezvani aka Cyrus Bassiak
Born in Iran in 1928 to an Iranian father and Russian mother, Serge Rezvani is a prolific painter, novelist, poet, playwright and most notably, songwriter. Between the years 1955 and 1965, sometimes under the alias Cyrus Bassiak, Rezvani penned the music for several seminal films of the French new wave, among them Jules et Jim [...]
Omidvar Brothers
In 1954, brothers Issa and Abdullah Omidvar set out by motorcycle on a journey across the world. In I957 they traveled to the frozen lands of the Arctic and lived with the Eskimos, in I966 they were the first from Asia to explore the Antarctica with the scientific expedition of Chile. The brothers returned to [...]