Persian Carpet is a film made up of fifteen short films by acclaimed Iranian directors, each of whom explores the history and art of this famous textile. The films vary widely in how they treat the subject; some are documentary, some are quite poetic.
My favorite segment was "The 3-D Carpet" by Rakhshan Bani Etemad, which tells the story of an enormous three-dimensional carpet representing Isfahan's Naghsg-e-Jahan mosque. The carpet is amazing -- 6.2 meters high and 6 meters wide, with a crown of 3.7 m, made up of 83 colors and more than 33 million knots, but lives wrapped up in a closet instead of being displayed where the world could enjoy it.
Also lovely were "The Carpet and the Angel" by Darius Mehrjui, about a young woman who has lost her family in the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran, and "The Little Prince" by Nourodin Zarrin Kelk, which adds a magic carpet to the story of the boy and his beloved rose.
Learn more about Persian carpets here. And go here to see more amazing views of the 3-D carpet.
WOW ! Thanks , this is stunningly fascinating . Imagine the math/ measurement going on in this .
Posted by: William Lexie | January 10, 2008 at 12:17 AM