Golden Age of Iranian Animation 1965-77

A showcase of Iranian animation in a variety of styles and themes, from the early efforts of Western-educated filmmakers like Nosrat Karimi to award-winning shorts produced by the Iranian government agencies Kanoon and the Ministry of Culture and Arts.

This program reveals two divergent aesthetic tendencies in this period of the 1970s: one inspired by medieval Persian miniature painting and other classic artforms, evident in the work of Karimi (who studied at FAMU in Prague) and Ali Akbar Sadeghi; and the other projecting a more modernist spirit, as seen in the experimental figurative work of Farshid Mesghali. Films in this package: Malek Jamshid (dir. Nosrat Karimi, 1965), Grey City (dir. Farshid Mesghali, 1972), Malek Black Bird (dir. Morteza Momayez, 1973), Atal Matal (dir. Norrodin Zarrin-Kelk, 1974), Rook (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1974), I Am the One Who (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1974), The Mad, Mad, Mad World (dir. Norrodin Zarrin-Kelk, 1975), Malak Khorshid (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1975) and Better, Comfier (dir. Farshid Mesghali, 1977).