Mohammad Reza Aslani

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Biography

Mohammad Reza Aslani was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1943 and graduated in Art and painting from Teheran’s Faculty of decorative arts. He spent his filmmaking training in the Ministry of Culture. Aslani started his professional carrier in cinema in 1967 with the documentary film “Hasanlu Cup”, and then worked with another project “Child and exploitation (1982)”, a documentary made with the aim of display for management community. It was one of the best documentaries made in Iran in eighties. But shortly after its release it was informally banned and marginalized in 1982. Aslani’s first feature film called “The chess game of the Wind” (1976) was a new and different experience in Iranian cinema, which also was very daring. Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo began her artistic activity with this movie by playing the role of a servant. Aslani made television series like “Samak Ayyar,” “light mist,” “logic of the flight”, script writing for movies such as “line”, “switchman”, “The Silent City,” “bottleneck,” “Requiem”, “the fourth morning,” “Stone Garden”. He wrote three books of poetry, “Bench Nights and Wind Days,” “The difference between the two Maghreb” and “Requiem for prohibited years”. Teaching at academies of Sura and cinema and theater, writing critical essays and comments about cinema is among Aslani’s other activities. His professional activities are enumerated. —onlinefilmhome.dk

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A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth

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Part 10 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

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A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth

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Frame

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In the memory of Jamshid Alvandi

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Hands of Hegmataneh

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A documentary about the city of Ecbatana, now called Hamadan.

Hands of Hegmataneh

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A documentary about the city of Ecbatana, now called Hamadan.

Child and Exploitation

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The film looks at the children who live and work in the big city's suburbs.

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Child and Exploitation

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Chess of the Wind

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The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage.

Chess of the Wind

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The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage.

The Mongols

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A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province. He has already hired Turkmen tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diegetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.

Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing

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For the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Hassanlou Cup, Aslani revisited the subject of his 1966 debut film, employing new digital zoom and color technologies and interweaving his own modern poetic verses with those of the 12th-century poet Attar. The film is a portrait of the artist as an older and more contemplative man.

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Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing

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