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Lecture : Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 6pm
A couple of years after the debut of Lumiere Brothers films in Grand Café in Paris on 28 December 1895, Iranians became acquainted with Cinematograph phenomenon.
The first Iranian film was filmed in 1900 , and the first public movie theatre in Tehran opened in 1903.
By the end of the Qajar era, there were many operating movie theatres in many big cities, and mostly through private screening, women were watching Iranian and foreign films.
In the early 1920’s women were able to watch films alongside men.
In this seminar, documents regarding the presence of women will be presented.
“Women and Cinema in Qajar Iran’ is part of an extensive research that aims to search through numerous existing private and public archives of documents in Iran.
This research hopes to provide a clear picture of the Iranian society at the turn of the twentieth century. In doing so, it wishes to present objective cultural and social behavioural archetypes of Iranians in modern times.
Lecture given by Behzad Rahimian
Writer and film critic from 1976
Editor-in-Chief of "Daftar-Haye Cinema" magazine , 1980-1981
Writer of the book "German Expressionism and Cinema Pioneers" , 1991
Editor-in-Chief of "Film international" Quarterly , 1993-1997
Cultural Supervisor of the "Film museum of Iran" , 1997-2005
Editor of a "Film Guide"(in seven volumes) , 1999-2010 & an "Encyclopedia of Cinema"
(in three volumes) , 2002-2011
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