I had another productive meeting with Dana. My Iran
documentary is taking shape. The film will be about women who emigrate from Middle
Eastern Countries to the West, and how the traditions and skills they bring
with them are an important part of culture and history. My next assignment is
to streamline the Mizrahi family’s story, put it on a timeline using interview material, and intersperse it with sparse voiceover about my grandmother’s story. Dana explained
that visually I should think in terms of texture. We looked at digitized
photographs that I have of Iran in the 70s, and she showed me how textures from
two different photographs can blend together using dissolves. Textures and
smells are an important part of this film. Dana also recommended I see the documentary film
Before the Revolution, a new film by
Dan Shadur and Barak Heymann, about Israelis living in Teheran in the 60’s and
70’s who enjoyed a special relationship with the Shah until their world collapsed
with the onset of the Revolution. Fortunately, it’s playing at the MFA in
May. And one more thing--I’m building a pulley clothesline. To be continued . . .
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