Ebrahim Golestan
{{Short description|Iranian-British filmmaker and literary figure (1922–2023)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ebrahim Golestan
| native_name = {{lang|fa|ابراهیم گلستان}}
| image = Ebrahim Golestan 134746 509.jpg
| caption = Golestan in 1968
| birthname = Ebrahim Taghavi Shirazi
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|10|19|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|08|22|1922|10|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Sussex, England
| education = University of Tehran (unfinished)
| occupation = Writer and director
| title =
| family = {{ubl
| Mani Haghighi (grandson)
| Mehrak Golestan (grandson)
}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Fakhri Golestan|1942|2012|reason=died}}
| partner = Forough Farrokhzad{{Cite web|url=http://www.chouk.ir/maghaleh-naghd-gotogoo/1451-2012-02-20-09-32-04.html|title=گذري بر زندگي نامه"ابراهيم گلستان"|website=www.chouk.ir|accessdate=6 December 2022}} (1960s–1967)
}}
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Ebrahim Taghavi Shirazi ({{langx|fa|ابراهیم گلستان}}, 19 October 1922 – 22 August 2023), known as Ebrahim Golestan, was an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure. Golestan was closely associated with Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad, whom he met in his studio in 1958, until her death. He was said to have inspired her to live more independently.{{cite web|title=Farough timeline|url=http://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/lifetime.htm|access-date=8 April 2012}} It could also be said that she inspired him in his artistic vision. He lived in Sussex, United Kingdom from 1975 until his death.
Biography
Ebrahim Golestan was married to his cousin, Fakhri Taghavi Shirazi; their son was photojournalist Kaveh Golestan and their daughter was Lili Golestan, translator and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran, Iran.{{Cite web|url=http://www.masoudsoheili.com/IranArt-Gallery/LiliGolestan.html|title=Masoud Soheili|website=masoudsoheili.com|access-date=6 December 2022}} A grandson, Mani Haghighi, is also a film director. His other grandson, Mehrak, is a rapper.
Golestan was a member of the Tudeh Party of Iran, but broke away from the party in January 1948.{{cite book|last1=Maziar |first1=Behrooz|year=2000|title=Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=1860646301|page=168}}
After Forough Farrokhzad's death, Golestân was protective of her privacy and memory. For example, in response to the publication of a biographical/critical study by Michael Craig Hillmann called A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry (1987), he published a lengthy attack against Hillmann in a Tehran literary magazine,[http://www.jarchi.com "Az Yek Maqâleh va Chand Ostâd."] to which Hillmann responded at length in an article, part of which was also published in the same Tehran literary magazine. In 2005, Golestan's long conversation with Parviz Jahed was published in Iran under the title Writing with a Camera (Neveshtan ba Doorbin).{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
In February 2017, 50 years after Farrokhzad's death, the 94-year-old Golestan broke his silence about his relationship with Forough, speaking to Saeed Kamali Dehghan of The Guardian. Golestan said: "I rue all the years she isn't here, of course, that's obvious. We were very close, but I can't measure how much I had feelings for her. How can I? In kilos? In metres?"{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/12/forough-farrokhzad-iranian-poet-ebrahim-golestan-slyvia-plath|title=Former lover of the poet known as Iran's Sylvia Plath breaks his silence|date=12 February 2017|website=the Guardian|accessdate=6 December 2022}}
Golestan participated in the 2022 documentary See You Friday, Robinson. Director Mitra Farahani initiated an email exchange between Golestan and French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, with emailed text letters from Golestan and "videos, images, and aphorism" responses from Godard.{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/jean-luc-godard-documentary-ebrahim-golestan-iran-1235034242/ |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick |title=Jean-Luc Godard Non-Conventional Documentary 'See You Friday Robinson' Set For Festival Circuit (EXCLUSIVE) |publisher=Variety |date=5 August 2021 |access-date=25 September 2022}}
Golestan turned 100 in October 2022,{{cite web |url=https://www.viennale.at/en/series/monography-golestan |title=Monography: Ebrahim Golestan {{!}} Earthly Songs: Ebrahim Golestan on his 100th birthday |work=Vienna International Film Festival |date=20 October 2022 |access-date=26 November 2022}} and died in Sussex on 22 August 2023.{{cite news |title=ابراهیم گلستان درگذشت |url=https://fararu.com/fa/news/660117/ابراهیم-گلستان-درگذشت |access-date=23 August 2023 |publisher=Fararu}}
Works
Golestan started his film studio Golestan Films in 1957 and produced some documentaries for the National Iranian Oil Company. A Fire and Moj, Marjan and Khara are amongst these films. He also produced the Forough Farrokhzad film The House is Black.[https://mandegar.tarikhema.org/زندگانی ابراهیم گلستان زندگانی-ابراهیم-گلستان] Tarikhema (in Persian)
Books
= Stories =
- Âzar, mâh-e âkher-e pâ’iz (Azar, the last month of autumn), 1948{{cite news |title=Iranian filmmaker, literary figure Ebrahim Golestan dies at 101 |url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/488261/Iranian-filmmaker-literary-figure-Ebrahim-Golestan-dies-at-101 |access-date=25 August 2023 |work=Tehran Times |date=23 August 2023 |language=en}}
- Shekâr-e sâyeh (Shadow-hunting), 1955
- Juy-o divâr-o teshneh (The stream, the wall and the thirsty one), 1967
- Madd-o meh (Tide and mist), 1969
- Rooster, 1995
- Neveshtan Ba Dourbin, 2005{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
- {{cite journal |last= Sprachman |first= Paul |date= 1982 |title= Ebrahim Golestan's the Treasure: A Parable of Cliché and Consumption|journal= Iranian Studies |volume= 15 |issue= 1 |pages= 155–180 |doi= 10.1080/00210868208701598 |jstor= 4310386}}
Filmography
= Documentaries =
- Yek atash (A fire) (1961){{Cite web |title=Yek Atash (A Fire) |url=https://farsiland.com/movies/a-fire/ |access-date=24 August 2023|website=FarsiLand |language=en-US}}
- Moj, marjan, khara (1962){{Citation |last=Golestan |first=Ebrahim |title=Moj, marjan, khara |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495731/ |type=Documentary, Short |access-date=2023-08-24 |publisher=Studio Golestan |last2=Pendry |first2=Alan}}{{Cite web |title=Moj o marjan o khara |url=https://www.viennale.at/en/film/moj-o-marjan-o-khara |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=www.viennale.at |language=en}}
- The Hills of Marlik (1963){{Cite web |title=Tappe-haye Marlik (The Hills of Marlik). 1963. Directed by Ebrahim Golestan Roma. 1972. Directed by Federico Fellini {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6242 |access-date=24 August 2023|website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}
- The crown jewels of Iran (1965){{cite web |title=The Crown Jewels of Iran |url=https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/the-crown-jewels-of-iran |website=iffr.com |access-date=25 August 2023}}
= Drama =
References
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External links
- [https://tirgan.ca/b/2011/programs/film/ebrahim-golestan.html Golestan at tirgan Iranian Festival]
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- [http://www.iranian.com/golestan.html Articles and short stories by Golestan] on Iranian.com
- [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/browse/tag/ebrahim-golestan Ebrahim Golestan - Poetry Foundation]
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/avconsole/bb_wm_fs.shtml?redirect=fs.shtml&lang=fa&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&ws_pathtostory=http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/wsindex/int/av/persian/-/persian/news/avfile/2007/11/&ws_storyid=071111_pm-ebrahim-golestan Video interview with Ebrahim Golestan], by Masoud Behnoud, BBC, 2007
- Jahed, Parviz, “Directors, Ebrahim Golestan”, Directory of World Cinema: Iran, Parviz Jahed (ed.), Intellect, Chicago. (2012).
- Jahed, Parviz, "Brick and Mirror" ([https://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0122130/ "Khesht va Āyeneh"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306021755/http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0122130/ |date=6 March 2012 }}), in Persian, 15 May 2007
- [https://iffr.com/en/persons/ebrahim-golestan Ebrahim Golestan - International Film Festival Rotterdam]
- Hamid Dabashi, Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema, 451 p. (Mage Publishers, Washington, DC, 2007); Chapter III, pp. 71–106: Ebrahim Golestan; Brick and Mirror; {{ISBN|0-934211-85-X}}
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