The Power of Close-ups and the Poetics of Silence: The House is Black by Forough Farrokhzad
The House is Black is a lyrical documentary by a modernist Iranian poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad. It is a kind of symbolic visual poem about leper patients of a leprosarium in Iran made in 1962, which transcends time and place. This paper describes the ways in which the emphasis on the huma...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023-05-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2023-0008 |