Great filmmakers who make crap!/ A pleasure that is no longer there

Charso Press: Nizamuddin Kiaei, a veteran sound operator of Iranian cinema, said about his latest professional activities: One of the last jobs I had was recording the movie “Majborim” which is currently being screened in cinemas. in the movie “Laminor“My name is included as an actor, even though I didn’t really act in this movie, and this is thanks to Lotf Reza Darmishian He was the producer of that movie that included my name in the credits. I have also worked on the movie “Meeting the Witch”, which has not been released yet. The reason for accepting this job was that the director was making his first film and I have been preferring to work with directors who are making their first work. I don’t have the patience to work with those who consider themselves to be the stars of cinema, but in reality they are just standing there and have not had any growth in cinema!

He emphasized: I accept working with young people more easily because I believe that the future of cinema belongs to these young people. I know a certain director who has made maybe 50 films till now and I know the limit His filmmaking As far as it goes, more than not, but a young man can be graded between zero and one hundred. If I accept to work with a young filmmaker, it is because I always hope that this director can become a Orson be Wales With all my learning and experience, when I am at the service of such a young filmmaker, it is more fun for me than working with a filmmaker who considers himself a great filmmaker and, for example, may have won 10 Fajr awards to date, but not me. No, I do not value his work! Such a person in my opinion flash And it is wrong, except that Fajr festival does not reward many good and right deeds.

For any specialty in cinema, you must first be a “cinematographer”.

This experienced sound operator continued: The problem I have with Iranian cinema, I suffer from it and I am not even ready to accept teaching, is that if you want to work in only one field in cinema, you are not a successful person. I believe that in cinema, whoever enters the work, regardless of his field of expertise, must first be a cinematographer. That is, after knowing him from the medium of cinema and its components Complete and become a critic, then he can say, for example, I’m interested in sound recording, and move on. If the sound recording is cinematographic, its work becomes more emotional. If not, any wedding makeup artist can say that I am a cinema makeup artist! While this expertise is not useful in cinema.

He added: Meanwhile, the director means an absolute cinematographer. A director who does not know sound, camera, make-up, stage design and the history of developments in these fields is not a director. Mahmoud Kalari is one of the first-class cinematographers of Iranian cinema, but for all his work, he does not win awards, but his work is seen and won in films that were directed by Asghar Farhadi and knew all aspects of filmmaking.

Kiai continued: These days, a series called “Yaghi” is being aired, which is directed by Mohammad Kart. I am surprised to watch this series because I see how much he knows about cinema and all the elements are correct in it. Even the blackness of the division is properly passed in front of the camera. Actors like Parsa pyrosphere And Tanaz Tabatabai are placed in the frame and seen in such a way that they look more mature than ever. These show that this director is a cinematographer.

This veteran sound operator continued: The reality is that we don’t have a director who knows all aspects of cinema. Of course, there are people like Mr. Farhadi, that’s why in films directed by Asghar Farhadi, usually all actors shine and even become candidates, but the same actors are not seen in other films.

Some become festival judges after acting in two films!

Reemphasizing the high value of a movie, he continued: In the world of medicine, a doctor must study for at least 10 years to become a doctor, but after these 10 years, he is still not allowed to perform surgery, he has to work very hard to get a work permit. Here, however, the unreached party becomes a director and actor, and after acting in two films, he also becomes a festival judge! Finally, how can a lady or a gentleman become a judge after acting in two films? Even those who have experience are usually not good judges because there is often jealousy in their work and they want to compare everyone else’s work with their own. That’s why I say that those who want to work in cinema must be cinemagoers in the true sense of the word.

Kiaei further said: During the two years I was not in Iran, I had job offers, but I did not accept them because I no longer want to work in Iranian cinema. It is true that things have become easier, there is even good money in this profession, and some projects even send cars for you, but this is not fun. In all the films I have worked on, except for one or two projects for which I was deceived, I have always had a hard time and my father has been involved. I have done all the work for these films and sometimes I have received a little money, but when I see the result of the work on the screen, all my fatigue is gone. I have cried because of the conditions under which the movie “Must” is being released these days. There is really no proper information about this movie. No matter how much we are used to watching worthless movies, watching “We have to” makes us shiver.

This veteran sound engineer said about the difference in the quality of Iranian filmmakers’ work: Today, directors express their inner mentality more than anything else in their works, rather than trying to create someone else’s scenario. Today, we have a great director who, if we want to name 10 important films in the history of Iranian cinema, we must mention three of his films, but this director’s first film was the most ridiculous film in the history of our cinema! He is a smart and well-educated person who was able to learn directing in the same movie. He has the necessary intelligence and literacy, and when he goes to a special story of a great writer, his film is big. When the same filmmaker writes the scenario of his works for him recently, his works become nonsense!

Asghar Farhadi knows the alphabet of cinema, but he has not added anything to it

While enumerating some features of the filmmaking of a director like Abbas Kiarostami, which has led to the global longevity of his works, he continued: Cinema has its own alphabet that you must know. If you don’t know this alphabet, you will become some directors of today’s Iranian cinema who make films and their works get awards in Fajr Festival, but their cinema is without alphabet. Filmmaker like Abbas Kiarostami has added at least one letter to this alphabet. As great directors like Griffiths And Orson Wales added letters to this alphabet. This alphabet is not an alphabet that every filmmaker knows. Filmmakers like Asghar Farhadi, who knows this alphabet, have not yet added a letter to this alphabet, in my opinion. Winning 2 Oscars, nothing, winning 10 Oscars does not prove that you have been able to add a letter to the alphabet of cinema.

Kiai added: Since I have such a view of cinema, I cannot work with everyone, but when I appear on the scene as a sound engineer, I consider myself as a servant. I love my work so much that if they say to shovel the ground, I will. I enjoy this collaboration because I know that I am close to the director I am working with in terms of thought and thinking, and he has the intelligence to create a great work. I am a small person in the cinema with big friends and I like that more than trying to tell everyone that I am a big person, but have small friends!

In the end, this veteran sound operator said: The reality is that I no longer enjoy working in Iranian cinema. I feel like the directors I would have loved to work with are no longer allowed to make films. Why do I need to go to work with others whose work I don’t like? All these other sound recorders who are much cheaper than me and have more up-to-date tools. I believe that sound recording is not an art, but a technique that, if the filmmaking is artistic, can give it an artistic feel.