settima

HormouzFarhat

دایره مینا [Dayereh mina / The Cycle] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1977)

Jan

23

National Blood Donor Month

Dayereh mina (1977)

Poor looking men seen squatting on the floor, one arm attached to a blood bottle. In the middle of the floor a man in a lab coat with numerous empty bottles on a pristine white table. DP: Houshang Baharlou.

Someone gives blood for National Blood Donor Month (USA). A young man who accompanies his sick father to a hospital decides to donate blood for much needed money.

گاو [Gaav / The Cow] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)

Dec

27

چای

Gaav (1969)

Two man sit against a white plastered, adobe wall. As one plays the setar, the other accepts a glass of chaii (black tea) from a square hole in the wall. DP: Fereydon Ghovanlou.

“I'm not Hassan. I'm his cow.”