DVD
DVD is released!!!
Midnight Approaches…
WATCH TRAILER:
” I found the marriage of visual, musical and poetic imagery in Niloufar Talebi’s
work to be touching and effective and an ideal way to discover and appreciate
contemporary Iranian poetry.”
-Michael Tilson Thomas
-SF Symphony Music Director
Features:
Introduction to Persian Poetry
A Bird Is a Bird, poem by Abbas Saffari
I Hang Myself, poem by Saghi Ghahraman
Many Happy Returns, poem by Partow Nooriala
My Mother Did Not Become Beautiful, poem by Reza Farmand
Tomorrow, poem by Abbas Saffari
Night, poem by Majid Naficy
coming attractions:
Love Is Lemony, poem by Ziba Karbassi
Gravequake, poem by Ziba Karbassi
Song of Ruin, poem by Ziba Karbassi
Midnight Approaches…
Created by
Niloufar Talebi
Co-produced by
Sharlyn Sawyer of Afsaneh Art and Culture Society
and
The Translation Project
Performance Director
Zara Houshmand
Poetry Translations
Niloufar Talebi
with
Dan O’Connell
Performers
Ali Dadgar
Niloufar Talebi
Additional Actors
Francisco Gonzales Leon
Siam Moeini
Dancers
Larissa Verduzen
Aliah Najmabadi
Design and Choreography
Sharlyn Sawyer
Original Music
Composed and Performed by
Hafez Modirzadeh
Mohammad Nejad
royal hartigan
Video Director, Editor,
Computer Graphics Design
Elaine G. Trotter
Video Engineer, DVD Encoding and Authoring
Andy Neddermeyer
Camera Operators
George Rosenfeld
Barry Scheinberg
Taroo Berry
Joe Faria
Audio Recording and mix
Phil Perkins
Video Production/Editing/DVD Facility
InVision Productions
Calligraphy
Youbert Lazar
Menu Images
from “Pastoral”
Turaj Ebrahimi
Additional Images
Laila Salartash
Parvin Darabi
Sharlyn Sawyer
Bird Footage
“Montezuma Marsh”
Hoss Firooznia
Musical Compositions for
“Love is Lemony”
and
“Gravequake”
David Molina
This project is made possible by
a generous grant from
The Christensen Fund
Additional Support
Anonymous, Karim Nassiri-Toussi,
Maryam Ebrahimi, Matt Kamkar, Mike Bakhshi,
Roxanne and Alex Najafi, Shima Alaghemand,
Amir Farrahi and Mandana Kompani, Ramin Omid,
Michael Samak, Kristen Sbrogna, Haleh Hatami,
Michael Tilson Thomas and Joshua Robison,
John and Marcia Goldman,
Dr. and Mrs. Talebi
We Thank
Ken Wilson, Roger Greenwald, Nahid Mozaffari,
Richard Jeffrey Newman, Sepi Reisieh, Reza Moini,
Mark Eisner, Dan O’Connell, Rafique Keshavjee,
Maryam Ebrahimi, Sally Lee Christian, Pierre Joris,
Jordan Rosenfeld, Benjy Young and Project Artaud,
ODC Theater and Brittany Brown, Tercera Galleries,
Askold Melnyczuk, Dr. Kamron Jabbari, Laurel Winzler,
Bruce Bahmani, Tom Bruchs and Dolby Laboratories,
Maryam Sadeghy, Ahmad Kiarostami, Henry Rawitscher,
Farzad Mobin, Maryam Daryabegi, Maryam Khotani,
Catherine Howard, Ebrahim Pakzad, Mehran Farahani,
James Faerron, Simone Nelson, Niloofar Nouri, the
Marashi family, Maryam C., Lynn Hoggard, Zack Rogow,
Konrad Steiner, Mayumi Fujio Morrow, Tamim Ansary,
Deborah Krant, Felecia Faulkner, Yvonne Schellerup,
Ayad Alkadhi, Gordon Elkins, DJ Dirtyhertz ,
Bita Ghaffari, and many many others…
Copyright (c) 2006 All Rights Reserved
Afsaneh Art and Culture Society
The Translation Project