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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 (Le Tourbillon, in which he makes a cameo), Pierrot le Fou and Masculin Féminin.

Rezvani has authored a translation of Khayyam’s Rubayyat as well as an anti-Shah, vaguely pro-Khomeini satirical play mocking the celebrations at Persepolis entitled “Le Camp du Drap d’Or” (Field of the Cloth of Gold) which was performed at the 1972 Festival d’Avignon.

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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 Iran in I964 after 7 years of adventure but were soon drawn to life on the road again. Their terrain this time was that of the African continent where they spent three years, traveling via Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by a faithful Citroen 2CV as their third travel companion.

Along the way they produced a massive collection of field recordings, films, photographs, autographs and other ethnographic miscellany which are now housed in a museum in Tehran.

More info here.

An animated short film from The National Film Board of Canada: This animated film is based on an old Persian parable. The inhabitants of a village learn to overcome their fear of the unknown. The benefit of their new-found knowledge is demonstrated. The black-and-white images are reminiscent of German wood-cuts.

35mm, Black & white, 3.5’, Produced for Kanoon

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