Postscript

In 1968, Albert Lamorisse traveled to Iran to shoot a film commissioned by the Shah, who wanted to establish a progressive image of the country. Le vent des amoureux would be the outcome, a film shot from bird’s eye view and narrated by the voice of the wind. The film was ultimately rejected and Lamorisse was forced to add footage of stunning locations. The wind he so revered was the very same one that would curse his helicopter and crash it into the Karaj River. The camera was recovered shortly thereafter and the negative developed. His partner and son ended up following his notes. In Postscript these images return to the surface. A phone call with an archivist at the National Film Archive of Iran is tense below the surface. To reconstruct it would involve piecing it together, deciphering the erasures, fabricating. Between opposing myths and stories, they weave together a rewriting of history. (PB)