| Description |
1 online resource (video file (39 min.)) : sound, color |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online, volume 2 |
| Summary |
This simple but affecting documentary portrays a rural craftsman who makes a traditional Iranian percussion instrument called a daf. All able-bodied family members participate in the production, including a blind son, whom we see hitching a ride to market with his sister to purchase the sheep skins and wood planks used in the instrument's manufacture. A doctor visits the father's younger 3-1/2 year-old son, who has also lost his eyesight, and offers this advice 'Pray to God. Give to charity. Have ceremonies and have a dervish play the daf for him.' The greater part of the film focuses on the laborious work involved in the fabrication of daf and culminates in a rousing ritual for the ailing boy. The accomplished camera work takes advantage of the surrounding scenery and local color. Sensitive individuals are warned of a brief but graphic segment of sheep being slaughtered |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014) |
| Event |
Recorded in Iran |
| Notes |
This edition in Persian (Farsi, Western) with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Ḍaph.
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Ḍaph -- Construction -- Iran
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Rites and ceremonies -- Iran
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duffs.
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Ḍaph.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Iran.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Ghobadi, Bahman, film director.
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