The Stone Garden

Synopsis

In The Stone Garden, Kimiavi visits the garden of Darvish Khan Esfandiarpur, a deaf mute whose home became a religious shrine after he began to hang stones from tree branches. In each film, Kimiavi explores the status of community, arguably producing allegories of the nation during a period of tremendous transformation.

Director Biography

Born in Tehran in 1939, Parviz Kimiavi trained as a filmmaker in Paris and worked at the public television network Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, before returning to Iran in 1969. He developed a rich documentary practice that flourished throughout the 1970s, approaching diverse subjects with a poetic and impressionistic sensibility, and exploring cultural tradition, modernity, and national identity.