Shirin Neshat: The Un-Private Collection: Artist as Activist from ALOUDla on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 Posted by Faranak
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Thursday, November 1, 2012 Posted by Faranak
Monday, April 9, 2012 Posted by Faranak
خوب من
با باد رفته بودم
به سرزمینی که در جغرافیا نبود
زبان تازه ام الفبایی نداشت
برایت نامه های بی خطی می فرستادم
خوب من
هیچ شاخه ای هرگز به جدا شدن فکر نمی کند
مگر به هنگام طوفان
به زنگاه مرگ
ما جدا شدیم
و نفهمیدیم
تو روزی در ماه زندگی خواهی کرد
و من در اتاق دوری به موازات رودخانه ها
برگهای درخت خاکستر
و پرندگانی که هرگز از برابر چشمهایت عبور نخواهند کرد
خوب من
تو برای تنفس
هیچ هوایی نداری و من
هوای تازه
آلوده ام می کند
با این همه
تا سقوط هردویمان فاصله ای ناچیزست
تو می توانی به راحتی
بی آنکه نیروی جاذبه دو پایت را به سطحی بچسباند
در فضا شناور شوی
من بی آنکه بخواهم
می توانم به مرکز زمین تبعید
و به چشمه های جوشان فلز
پناهنده شوم
ما می توانیم
جایی میان هیئت چند ستاره ی گمنام
بازوانمان را حلقه کنیم
بی آنکه در سیاهچاله ای فروبغلتیم
به کهکشانهای خاموش سفر کنیم
من شعر بگویم
تو گوش دهی
و هیچ چیز جز ارتعاش خفیفی از زمان
ما را به آخرین خورشید
Monday, February 13, 2012 Posted by Faranak
Listen to me as one listens to the rain,
not attentive, not distracted,
light footsteps, thin drizzle,
water that is air, air that is time,
the day is still leaving,
the night has yet to arrive,
figurations of mist
at the turn of the corner,
figurations of time
at the bend in this pause,
listen to me as one listens to the rain,
without listening, hear what I say
with eyes open inward, asleep
with all five senses awake,
it's raining, light footsteps, a murmur of syllables,
air and water, words with no weight:
what we are and are,
the days and years, this moment,
weightless time and heavy sorrow,
listen to me as one listens to the rain,
wet asphalt is shining,
steam rises and walks away,
night unfolds and looks at me,
you are you and your body of steam,
you and your face of night,
you and your hair, unhurried lightning,
you cross the street and enter my forehead,
footsteps of water across my eyes,
listen to me as one listens to the rain,
the asphalt's shining, you cross the street,
it is the mist, wandering in the night,
it is the night, asleep in your bed,
it is the surge of waves in your breath,
your fingers of water dampen my forehead,
your fingers of flame burn my eyes,
your fingers of air open eyelids of time,
a spring of visions and resurrections,
listen to me as one listens to the rain,
the years go by, the moments return,
do you hear the footsteps in the next room?
not here, not there: you hear them
in another time that is now,
listen to the footsteps of time,
inventor of places with no weight, nowhere,
listen to the rain running over the terrace,
the night is now more night in the grove,
lightning has nestled among the leaves,
a restless garden adrift-go in,
your shadow covers this page.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Posted by Faranak
Valzhyna Mort from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Sunday, November 13, 2011 Posted by Faranak
سکوت، دسته گلی بود پرندهی باد، یداله رویائی .
ميان حنجرهی من
ترانهی ساحل
نسيم بوسهی من بود و پلک باز تو بود.
بر آب ها پرندهی باد،
ميان لانهی صدها صدا پريشان بود.
بر آب ها ،
پرنده بی طاقت بود.
صدای تندر خيس،
و نور، نورِ ترِ آذرخش،
در آب، آيينه ای ساخت
که قاب روشنی از شعله های دريا داشت.
نسيم بوسه و
پلک تو و
شدند آتش و دود
ميان حنجرهی من،
سکوت، دسته گلی بود
Saturday, April 30, 2011 Posted by Faranak
A confusion sounds, an uncertain clarity.
Another day begins.
It is a room, half-lit,
and two bodies stretched out.
In my head I am lost
on a plain with no one.
The hours sharpen their blades.
But at my side, you are breathing;
buried deep, and remote,
you flow without moving.
Unreachable as I think of you,
touching you with my eyes,
watching you with my hands.
Dreams divide
and blood unites us:
we are a river of pulsebeats.
Under your eyelids the seed
of the sun ripens.
The world
is still not real;
time wonders:
all that is certain
is the heat of your skin.
In your breath I hear
the tide of being,
the forgotten syllable of the Beginning.
Octavio Paz
Thursday, April 22, 2010 Posted by Faranak
Sunday, January 17, 2010 Posted by Faranak
سرگِی پاراجانُف فيلم ساز مشهور ارمنی - روسی ست که در سال 1924 در شهر تفلیس بدنیا آمد. رنگ انارفیلم ساختۀ او یکی از شاهکارهای سینمائی قرن بیستم است. تصاویر و صحنه های بی نظیر در این فیلم گویای عمیق ترین زوایای روح بشر می باشند گوشه هائی که پرداختن به آن تنها در توان تعدادی بسیار اندک از نوع بشر است صحبت ازتقابل "من" و "منیّت" یک هنرمند و خالق یک اثراست با جهان پیرامونش
فصل قبل از کودکی/ فصل کودکی و قسمتی از فصل جوانی: از ظهور در آستانه، تولد، سرگردانی بین زنانگی و مردانگی تا قبل از ظهور معشوق / فصل جوانی: عاشق شدن - دنیای اجتماعی / سرزمین مردهها/ فصل میانسالی: به دیر رفتن و تقابل دوگونه زندگی در دیر .
Steeped in religious iconography, The Color of Pomegranates is a deeply spiritual testament to director Sergei Parajanov’s fascination with Armenian folk art and culture. It is also a controversial work, which, coupled with another of his films, Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag for four years. The Soviets insisted he was guilty of selling gold and icons illegally and committing “homosexual acts.” In reality, his only crime was offending the tenets of socialist realism, both in his daring surrealistic form and in his choice of subject matter. While many of the popular films of this era in Soviet cinema were largely propaganda designed to serve the ideological interests of the regime, Parajanov chose to focus on the ethnography and spirituality of the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia.
Monday, November 23, 2009 Posted by Faranak
Nov. 22, 1877 was the birthday of Hungarian Symbolist poet Endre Ady who was born in a part of Hungary that is now Romanian territory. He studied law, and later became a journalist in Oradea (also now in Romania). Through his involvement with a married woman who lived in Paris, he became aware of the relative provinciality of his home country and followed her to France. His muse Léda (a reverse spelling of her name Adél Brüll (married name, Mrs. Diósi)) inspired some of his sensual love poems, altogether an improvement over his youthful Sturm und Drang efforts…
Gradually he became a Modernist through exposure to the art circles in Paris and he started writing poems alternating between spleen and speed:
Autumn Passed through Paris
Autumn sliped into Paris yesterday,
came silently down Boulevard St Michel,
In sultry heat, past boughs sullen and still,
and met me on its way.
As I walked on to where the Seine flows by,
little twig songs burned softly in my heart,
smoky, odd, sombre, purple songs. I thought
they sighed that I shall die.
Autumn drew abreast and whispered to me,
Boulevard St Michel that moment shivered.
Rustling, the dusty, playful leaves quivered,
whirled forth along the way.
One moment: summer took no heed: whereon,
laughing, autumn sped away from Paris.
That it was here, I alone bear witness,
under the trees that moan.
***
Benediction from a Train
The express is hurtling at full speed,
the sun explodes into the sea,
my memories flash a millisecond,
and I bless you.
“May God bless
all your goodness,
your unresponsiveness,
and all your wickedness.
May your words of torment
return to you in benediction.
May your coldness
leap into flames.
All is at an end.
I have a thousand cares,
and for my folly
the bier is spread.
Well, I bless you,
and meanwhile
kiss me softly,
in silence and peace.
I wish to leave you
with a memory and a kiss
to freeze for warmth,
to be alone,
to feel alone,
to die alone.
May God bless you.”
The express is hurtling at full speed,
the sun explodes into the sea,
my memories flash a millisecond,
and I bless you.
Ady was against the war mongering forces in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wrote pacifist poems during WW I. He suffered a stroke near the end of the war, and died in 1919 from pneumonia and weakened health as a result of alcoholism.
I like to add another poem of him which is my favorite. FE
* * *
Who come from far away
We are the men who are always late,
we are the men who come from far away.
Our walk is always weary and sad,
we are the men who are always late.
We do not even know how to die in peace.
When the face of distant death appears,
our souls splash into a tam tam of flame.
We do not even know how to die in peace.
We are the men who are always late.
We are never on time with our success,
our dreams, our heaven, or our embrace.
We are the men who are always late.
Endre Ady
Sunday, November 22, 2009 Posted by Faranak
صدا كن مرا
صدا كن مرا.