"Baadeh Sabah (باد صبا): The Lovers' Wind" Shot 1970, completed posthumously 1978, 35mm
"A
well- known French filmmaker, Albert Lamorisse, under the aus- pices of
Iran's Ministry of Culture and Art, produced the poetic film "Lovers'
Wind" (1969). Eighty-five percent of this dramatically visual film is
shot from a helicopter, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the vast
expanses, natural beauty, historical monuments, cities and villages of
Iran. The "narrators" of the film are the various winds (the warm,
crimson, evil and lovers' winds), which accord- ing to folklore, inhabit
Iran. They sweep the viewers from place to place across the Iranian
landscape, introducing the incredible variety of life and scenery in
Iran. The camera, defying gravity, with smoothness and agility, provides
a bird's eye view, caressing minarets and domes, peek- ing over
mountain tops beyond, gliding over remote villages to reveal the life
enclosed within the high mud-brick walls, bouncing along with the local
wildlife, following the rhyth- mic, sinuous flow of the oil pipelines
and train tracks, and hovering over the mirror-like nmosaic of the rice
paddies that reflect the clouds and sky. The film is a testimonial to
the Iranian landscape and people over which so many dynasties and kings
have ruled and have, in turn, passed away. Ironically, on the tenth
anniversarv of the completion of the film, yet another seem- ingly
powerful dynasty (Pahlavi) has fallen, leaving, as the film points out,
the land and the migrating tribal nomads who have survived more or less
intact for centuries. Upon completion of the film, the Ministry of
Culture and Art decided that Lamorisse had not sufficiently emphasized
the industrialization of Iran. So he was called back to film additional
sequences documenting that progress. This task was never completed,
because the helicopter crashed while filming the Karaj Dam near Tehran,
plunging Lamorisse and his crew to their deaths. This film, whose
storybrook style of narration is often contrived, does not purport to be
a social document on Iran; nevertheless, it has never been shown
publicly in theaters in Iran."
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