Trust cinema Saeed Hajjarian wrote in a note entitled “Sound of a motionless camera” in Sharq newspaper: It was cinema day and on the occasion of the injustice done to the people of cinema, I wrote on X channel (former Twitter):
“Cinema close-up…
Baizai’s migration, Taqwai’s stay at home, the suspicious death of Pourahmad and Mehrjooi, and now, 300 open cases!
P.N.:
Rasool Sadr Aamili: “About 300 of our colleagues have an open court case due to the political, social and security conditions, and they are not able to act or make films, and they are still trapped.”
This writing resulted in reactions that require a broader space than X characters. In four paragraphs, I mention some things:
1) One of the media activists close to the judiciary and also the head of the cinema organization announced that the number of open cases of artists is not 300, but 30 or even less. I feel the need to answer and more importantly to close the cases, and I also welcome it and I believe that the less harassment and convictions, work bans and exit bans decrease, the benefits will reach everyone. However, we should note that at least since 1401, a number of artists have given the gift of artistic activity in their homeland; Either by emigrating or by voluntarily terminating their activities, therefore some cases will always remain open; Not in the judiciary and protection of a ministry, but in the public opinion and the life of a citizen who used to be named after this artist.
2) The head of the country’s cinema organization, Mr. Khazaei, announced in a TV program: “Don’t let me tell you what Mr. Hajarian did with artists like Bahram Bayzaei, Daud Rashidi, Saeed Rad, Jamshid Hashempour and…”
I believe that Mr. Khazaei has been wronged; When they were taunted by social media users because of the way they recited the prayer for the delivery of the year, when they were denied the antenna in the radio and television owned and headed by their like-minded people, so that they don’t say what they did to such prestigious and cultured names as me! God willing, at the first opportunity, the directors of the radio and television will be informed and compensate for the mistakes so that Mr. Khazaei can complete his words.
Third) I talked about my interactions with people of culture and art. I mention three things. The first of them goes back to the beginning of the revolution; When under a resolution of the Revolutionary Council, everyone was banned from leaving… That is, the principle was that everyone is banned from leaving, unless it is proven otherwise. My colleagues and I tried to correct this process as soon as possible, during which some artists left the country legally. Some important names are recorded in my memory that I don’t need
It is not their penmanship. The other two relate to about 20 years later; That is, autumn and early winter 1377. when a number of writers and people of culture as well as two political activists were killed; The so-called serial murders. In the wake of those events, firstly, we tried to use our maximum power in the newspaper Sobh Uroz in order to convey a sense of follow-up to the society and ensure psychological security as much as possible. Judging by people and archives and of course historians. Secondly, in the mission that I received from the President of the time, Mr. Khatami, I met with a group of members of the Writers’ Union, listened to their demands and conveyed them to the government so that those loved ones would no longer be affected by that horrible atmosphere. They said that they are not safe and that their lives are in danger, and they are regularly threatened and spend the nights at relatives’ houses; And of course other things! Al-Qasa, it was decided that the Ministry of Interior will take over the mission of protecting their lives.
That being said, it is impossible to imagine that I will follow one path in one field of art, which is the pen, and another path in another field, which is the cinema. In addition, I have never had any responsibility in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and my other responsibilities have basically nothing to do with this field, so that I want to make an artist redundant. Besides, less than two decades later, I became an actor in the movie “The Dragon Enters” directed by Mr. Mani Haghighi! In fact, opposition to art and artists can be a set of opposites. Fourth) and a final word. Mr. Bahram Baizaei narrates: “At the beginning of the revolution, they said that we don’t want writers, we want typesetters.” They used to say that we give the thought and you choose the words for us. i [بیضایی] I was arguing with this. I said: I have the idea myself and I write it myself and I don’t need you. You can’t stop me” (quoted from the book Mosaic of Metaphors; interview with Bahram Bayzaei, Borj Publishing House, p. 96). We all may make mistakes. I, and the like-minded people whom I can defend loudly today, tried to learn from those mistakes – an example of which was quoted by Mr. Baizai, and that’s why we defended the “political development” project with all its shortcomings. . The project, which included politics, economy and culture together, had new words and was different from the previous path, and included the freedom of writing and expression as much as possible, and of course, it also followed some resistances. Now the question is, why today some people are still busy bargaining, which of the numbers 30, 300 and 400 is closer to the reality and which institution has been added to the list of prohibited activities?! The future path is clear; If my thinking was wrong, move in the direction of the photo and open the space of art and cinema. And if it was true, continue thinking similar to it, of course with the necessary and necessary and up-to-date reforms. Perhaps, that teacher who did not have a job in his homeland and moved, will not come back and continue to teach Shahnameh in exile, maybe those who died or their taste was blinded, will not have a chance, maybe those who were slaughtered and the imagination of the camera in the hands of the stage They are not aroused, they do not come alive, but there will definitely be others who write scripts, make movies and influence society and the construction of power.