Tehran A Conceptual Art

This film is a modern rendition of a long tradition of socalled symphonies of a metropolis The glassy facades of this citys skyscrapers reflecting the passing by people of its diverse districts shown in the reflection of distorted mirrors symbolically depict the Spirit of a metropolis as if it lives in its own shadows and reflections This distorted reflection of Tehran comes together with modern verses of a poet who was known as the Poet of Tehran after publishing his illustrious cycle of poems about Tehran in the 60s As a flâneur the poet himself saunters around this city through his voicepoemmemory reflecting upon the reflections of oldmodern monuments sculptures statues etc of this giant metropolis