The UT doc center is pleased to present João Mário Grilo's THE FLYING CARPET:
O TAPETE VOADOR (THE FLYING CARPET)
A documentary by Portuguese filmmaker João Mário Grilo
Monday, April 26, 7:30 pm
University of Texas at Austin, CMA 3.120
It was through Portugal that the Persian carpets entered Europe to establish one of the most important cultural traditions in terms of decorative arts in the West. 500 years later, we returned to Iran to discover their original gestures of fabrication and the hypnotic forms and colors that still maintain all their freshness and fascination. The film is structured in four voyages + one, from geometry to nature, from knotting to abrash (the natural way a color fades and shades). In reality, it’s a film about itself and maybe about art in general and its infinite and immemorial landscapes. At the end it will reveal the mystery of the real “flying carpet”, the one through which so many people has flown as they flight today through the screen (a mobile carpet) and its magical powers.
O TAPETE VOADOR (2008, 56 min.) was filmed in Esfahan, Iran. João Mário Grilo is a Portuguese film director, author, and associate professor at the Communication Sciences Department, Social and Human Sciences Faculty of the New University of Lisbon (UNL). His other work includes the 1992 O FIM DO MUNDO (THE END OF THE WORLD, 1992) and 451 FORTE (2000).
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