Filmfarsi Distorto presents ; a film by Ehsan Khoshbakht.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Khoshbakht, Ehsan, 1982- film director. .

Distorto (Firm), production company. .

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Iran--History--20th century. .

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Censorship--Iran.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Iran. .

Motion pictures--Iran--History.

Iran--History--Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979.

Iran.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.

Iran--Social conditions--20th century. .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 min.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 2020

Summary:

"Filmfarsi was the cinema of a nation with a split personality", says filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht in this film-critical history of Iran under the Shah. Khoshbakht's found-footage essay film Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution. These films defined Iranian cinema in the 1960s and 70s, when the industry shared an equal percentage of the market with the USA. Little more than VHS rips remain. Khoshbakht here uncovers that which was thought destroyed. A cinema of titillation, action and big emotions, which also presented a troubling mirror for the country, as Iran struggled to reconcile its religious traditions with the turbulence of modernity, and the influences of the West. There are remakes and rip-offs, even a Persian Vertigo. The often cheap, sleazy and derivative films offer an insight into Iran's psyche."

Participant:

Iren, Fardin, Nasser Malek Motie, Forouzan, Behrooz Vosoughi [and archival footage of many others]

Credits:

Photography, Niyaz Saghari ; editing, Niyaz Saghari, Abolfazl Talooni ; original music, Naiel Ibarrola, Lander Macho.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343076353

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license