The House is Black is an Iranian film that was written and directed by Forugh Farrokhzād. This film was created in 1962 and has been called the best Iranian film ever, it was also the very first Iranian film to have been created by a woman.
This film is a short one, lasting around twenty five minutes. Coming into the film, I had no idea what it was about, just that it was the fist film in Iran created by a woman. It starts out with only a black screen showing, with english subtitles warning the viewer about what they are about to see is very graphic. As I continued watching things quickly got a little weird. The entire short film was about a Leper (Leprosy) colony in northern Iran. This was not at all what I had expected to see but I continued to watch until the film was finished. Farrokhzad went and stayed in this colony for thirteen days while her and her crew filmed them. She created this film to draw awareness to the still relevant (1962) Leper colonies. Throughout the film she emphasized that Leprosy is curable!
Overall I thought this film was very strange but I understand why she made it. Before this film I had never even realized that Leprosy was relevant in our world, perhaps its not today in 2013.
Tia Martin
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