Sunday, January 5, 2020

January 05 - Forough Farrokhzad


Happy Birthday, Forough Farrokhzad! Born today in 1934, this influential Iranian poet and filmmaker was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view. 

Farrokhzad is best known for writing, directing and co-narrating (along with her second and final husband, Iranian filmmaker and literary figure Ebrahim Golestan). 

This was the acclaimed twenty-six-minute 1963 Iranian black and white documentary short film 'Khaneh siah ast' ('The House Is Black').

The film takes an insinuative look at the leprosy-stuck colony of Tebriz in Iran, which has been completely neglected by the society.  

One of Iran's most revered female poets, Farrokhzad passed from a jeep accident on February 13, 1967. She was 32. 

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