The House is Black - 1962

Forough's Farrokhzad's poetry is paired with a masterfully edited series of images from a Tabriz leper colony.

B&W, 22 minutes, Farsi

Original Title: Khaneh Siah Ast

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All People Featured

As Themselves

Writer	Forough Farrokhzad
Director	Forough Farrokhzad
Producer	Ebrahim Gulistan
Director of Photography	Soleiman Minasian
Sound Recordist	Mahmoud Hangval Samad Pourkamali
Editor	Forough Farrokhzad

The viewer is confronted with many different faces of those afflicted with leprosy.

A classroom made up of students of all ages.

One of the afflicted struggles to light his pipe.

Those caring for the infected are also featured by Farrokhzad.

A man prays in the colony's mosque.

The young girls act the same as if they did not reside in the colony.

The teacher - "..name a few ugly things."

"hand...foot...head."

An older student is instructed to write a sentence with the word "black" in it.

"The house is black."

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