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In our first screening, Statues of Tehran, there was a story about a statue by Bahman Mohassess. Some of you who knew about Fifi Howls from Happiness, a new fascinating documentary about Bahman Mohassess (directed by Mitra Farahani and produced by Marjaneh Moghimi), asked if we could show it. Im happy to say that starting this week, the film is coming out in several cities in North America. You can check about the release dates in your town on this site: musicboxfilms/fifi-howls-from-happiness-movies-105.php Bahman Mohassess was a famous artist in pre-revolutionary Tehran, and admired by many connoisseurs in the West. In 2006, appalled by the state of his country and the world in general, he destroyed much of his work and disappeared. At least that’s what he wanted people to believe. But then, a young Iranian filmmaker tracked him to a comfortable hotel room in Rome so she could make this fascinating, moving and ribald portrait. Hollywood Reporters says The most startlingly unexpected Iranian triumph at Telluride was Mitra Farahanis FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS, an unconventional documentary about forgotten Iranian artist Bahman Mohassess. Mohassess, who died in 2010, was a fantastic character, a viciously witty gay guy who cut a stylish swath through Europe and makes wicked fun of his dim-bulb oppressors. In the film, Farahani, gorgeous and stylishly feminine, spars skillfully with the artist, deftly penetrating his defenses through sheer intelligence and knowledge of his work, like Truffaut interviewing Hitchcock. Mitra Farahani was born in Teheran and now lives in Paris. She studied graphic art and painting in Iran before taking courses in video studies in France. Her first documentary short film Just a Woman won the Teddy Award at the 2002 Berlinale. Tabous – Zohre & Manouchehr(2004) and Fifi Howls from Happiness (2013), two feature documentaries, were each premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2007, her documentary Behjat Sadr: Suspended Time portrayed one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionist painting in Iran. In parallel, Mitra Farahani’s painting works pursue the same issue of realism that she deals with in her cinema works.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:45:47 +0000

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