Pollution at the Bazaar

Pollution at the Bazaar
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Flashback: Home Movies from 1960's

These are some home movies from my family around the late 60's in Iran (before the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic, so there was no dress code then). Watch until the end and you will be rewarded with a painterly picnic scene of a lovely girl dancing in front of wind swept cypresses.*

1960's home movies from Iran from Eric Feldman & Leyla Modirzadeh on Vimeo.


*The first man you see is my father with a moustache. Next you see my Aunt Mehri's daughter Maryam dancing the twist, with Mehri looking on in a pale pink sweater. Eventually you can see my grandfather smoking the hookah pipe and my grandmother praying, also in the thumbnail frame above. Uncle Fakh is the one serving the saffron rice, also praying in front of Grandma. Uncle Mahmad is the one dancing around, Uncle Mahmoud puts the flower in his mother's hair, and Uncle Shams and his wife Khanouma are cleaning the shaving cream off of their little girl's face.

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