The House is Black
Füruğ Ferruhzad
1962
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21'
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The only film directed by feminist Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad before her death in 1967, The House is Black is a twenty-minute portrait of a leper colony in northern Iran that looks at life and suffering in Bababaghi Hospice leper colony and focuses on the human condition and the beauty of creation. The colony's inhabitants live, worship, learn, play, and celebrate in a self-contained community cut off from the rest of the world. Farrokhzad paints a compassionate picture of society's marginalized using reflective voiceovers from the Old Testament, the Koran, and her own poetry. Through vivid imagery, the film confronts physical differences head-on, revealing the humanity often overlooked due to illness.
About Film
The only film directed by feminist Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad before her death in 1967, The House is Black is a twenty-minute portrait of a leper colony in northern Iran that looks at life and suffering in Bababaghi Hospice leper colony and focuses on the human condition and the beauty of creation. The colony's inhabitants live, worship, learn, play, and celebrate in a self-contained community cut off from the rest of the world. Farrokhzad paints a compassionate picture of society's marginalized using reflective voiceovers from the Old Testament, the Koran, and her own poetry. Through vivid imagery, the film confronts physical differences head-on, revealing the humanity often overlooked due to illness.
About Director
Forough Farrokhzad (28 December 1934 - 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet, author, painter and film director. Regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, she was a controversial modernist and a feminist iconoclast. She died in a car accident at the age of 32.
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