JawsHarp Solo

Botánica. Downtown Los Angeles.
December 2, 2006. Photo by Sourena Parham

Botánica

Learning to Walk (1978, Yugoslavia). Written and directed by Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo.

Learning to Walk (1978)

Untitled. Vakil public bath. Shiraz, Iran, 2008.
Photo by Sourena Parham.

Untitled

Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Ménilmontant, an avant garde silent movie from 1926.

Ménilmontant

Elegy: Arno Babadjanyan (1921-1983). In memory of Aram Khatchaturian (melody after Sayat Nova).
Arrangment: Sormeh, Lyrics: Golnar Shahyar, Mona Matbou Riahi

Elegy

Extracts from “The art of Piano” documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach’s Partita #2.

Glenn Gould plays Bach

“Every nation is a lie for which time and history have gradually fashioned an appearance of truth – as they did for ancient myths and classical legends. No nation ever arose naturally. The coherence and fraternity that a few still display conceal alarming realities beneath fine literary, historical and artistic fictions that underpin their identity. In these nations too those “contradictions and differences” – creeds, races, customs, languages, and not always minority languages – were demolished, for just like Albert Camus’s Caligula, the Nation needs to eliminate these things in order to feel secure, safe from the risk of fragmentation.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa

Every nation is a lie…

Two lights. by Sourena Parham. Williamstown, November 7, 2011.

Two lights

The First Love (1952) by Gambar Huseinli. Performed by Ramiz Guliyev (Tar).

The First Love