Հայերեն
The Rock
Swathed from head to toe in black, a woman is breaking stones out of a rock wall using a crowbar and her bare hands. Like Sisyphus, she seems doomed to live eternally the same daily routine. She lives nearby in a hut made of stones dug out of the rock. Her day-to-day life is divided between the care she provides to her husband and the long hours spent extracting stones. The stony, reddish moonlike landscape of southern Iran and the traditional way of life lend an almost biblical atmosphere to this serene, aesthetically filmed visual poem.
Awards
Best Short Documentary, Cinema Verite IFF, Tehran, Iran, 2015
Hamid Jafari
Born in 1971 in Mahshahr, Iran, Hamdollah (Hamid) Jafari is an Iranian film director and producer. He studied Cinema at Sooreh University in Tehran and began making films in the early 1990’s. Jafari has been involved in the making of several documentaries as director and producer. His 2012 documentary Thus Spoke the Yeoman received the Armenian Union of Cinematographers Special Award at the Apricot Tree IFF 2015. Jafari is a Board Member of the Iranian Association of Documentary Filmmakers.
Filmography
Thus Spoke the Yeoman, 2012
The Rock, 2015
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Film Details:
Iran, 2015, 24’
in Persian w/ Arm./ Eng. subtitles
Director & Writer: Hamid Jafari
Producers: Fatemeh Forouzanala, Hamid Jafari
Cinematographer: Arastoo Madahi Givi
Editor: Esmaeel Monsef
Sound: Ali Reza Daryadel