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Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran on 28 December 1934, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (the Farrokhzad family hail from Tafresh) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar. The fourth of seven children (the others being Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun , Pooran , and Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade ...
Forough Farrokhzad made the short documentary film The House Is Black in 1963, and this film is considered to be a precursor to the new wave cinema. Its unflinching depictions of life in a leper colony, paired with artistically composed shots and her own poetry, made this a truly unique film.
After a stay in Europe in 1958, Forugh Farrokhzad, most well-known as a poet, returned to Iran and met and began a relationship with filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan.She worked at his film studio, where she gained an opportunity to work as an editor on his documentaries A Fire and Water and Heat, before then directing The House is Black in collaboration with a leprosy charity.
In the 1960s, there were 'New Wave' movements in the cinema of numerous countries. The pioneers of the Iranian New Wave were directors like Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. They made innovative art films with highly political and philosophical tones and poetic language.
In 1965, at age thirteen, Naficy published two poems in Jong-e Isfahan [20] magazine in Isfahan. [21] Soon his poetry appeared in the prestigious Arash magazine, next to Forough Farrokhzad's work, as well as Jozveh-ye She'r, the organ of New Wave Poetry next to poems of Ahmadreza Ahmadi and Bijan Elahi.
The poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, Parvin Etesami, and the authoritative and rebellious role of Táhirih Qurrat al-ĘżAyn, as well as the role of women like Farrokh-Rou Parsa, the first female ...
Farrokhzad is one of the most influential Persian poets. Many of her poems focused on feminism thus they have remained important and significant as the voice of women in Iran. [8] 'The Wind-up Doll' is an example of Farrokhzad's poetic obsession with societal issues and critique of tradition. [9]
The title is a reference to a poem written by the modern Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. In the film, a journalist posing as a city engineer arrives in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals that anticipate the death of an old woman. However, she remains alive, and the journalist is forced to slow down and appreciate the ...