One (1 take in 1 minute with Abbas Kiarostami) by Jorge Tur 2006



Abbas Kiarostami

Abolfazl Jalili Talks about His "A True Story" (French subtitles)



Abolfazl Jalili



 

Abolfazl Jalili (Persian: ابوالفضل جلیلی , born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian (Persian) film director. He belongs to Iranian new wave movement. Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, then worked for national television (IRIB) where he produced several children's films. His 'Det' Means Girl (1994) won prizes in Venice film festival and Nantes. He was one of Rotterdam's Film Makers in Focus in 1999.

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Images

Khawaja Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Ṭūsī (Persian: محمد بن محمد بن الحسن طوسی) (born 18 February 1201 in Ṭūs, Khorasan – 26 June 1274 in al-Kāżimiyyah, Baghdad), better known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی‎; or simply Tusi in the West), was a Persian polymath and prolific writer: an astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, physician, physicist, scientist, theologian and Marja Taqleed. The Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) considered Tusi to be the greatest of the later Persian scholars. (From Wikipedia)

CHARGAN Ensemble Persian Strings Quartet: Agitation by Hamed Afshari

CHARGAN Ensemble Persian Strings Quartet
By: Hamed Afshari
Kamancheh: Ehsan Zabihifar, Morteza Mokhtari
Qaychak Alto: Shima Shahmohammadi
Qaychak Bass: Hamed Afshari

Chargan

Silk Road Project: Kayhan Kalhor Talks about the Kamancheh

Woman playing the kamancheh in a painting from
the Hasht Behesht Palace in Isfahan Persia, 1669.

Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: كيهان كلهر), born 1963, is an Iranian kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Persian music.He is from a Kurdish family.

Kayhan Kalhor was born in Tehran. He began studying music at the age seven. By the age of thirteen he was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Continuing his music studies under various teachers, he studied in the Persian radif tradition and also travelled to study in the northern part of Khorasan province, where music traditions have Kurdish and Turkic influences as well as Persian. At a musical conservatory in Tehran around age 20 Kalhor worked under the directorship of Mohammad-Reza Lotfi who is from Northern Khorasan. Kalhor also travelled in the northwestern (Kurdish) provinces of Iran. He later moved to Rome and Ottawa to study European classical music.

The kamānche or kamāncha (Persian: کمانچه ) is a Persian bowed string instrument related to the bowed rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and also to the bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor of the European violin family. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow: the word "kamancheh" means "little bow" in Persian (kæman, bow, and -cheh, diminutive). It is widely used in the classical music of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. (From Wikipedia)