Six Pillars to Persia is an English Language programme that looks at Persian heritage and modern Iranian culture. From rebel artists and exiled writers to the Persepolis exhibition at the British Museum.
World renowned film maker Abbas Kiarotsami gives a talk at the V & A museum on his realism in film. This talk follows a viewing of Kiarostami’s film Taa’ziyeh about the Islamic ceremony particular to Iran, in which men and women sit separately and chanting, lamenting and often crying or beating themselves at the terrible death of Imam Hussein.
This programme was recorded in the Resonancefm studios and features a recording made by Fari Bradley at the V & A Museum. Many thanks to the Victoria & Albert Museum and Sussan Deyhim for their permissions.
This is in fact the Kiarotsami talk at V & A. It is after the viewing of Kiarostami’s film Taa’ziyeh about the Islamic ceremony particular to Iran.