Mousavi’s visualisations, inseparable from his recall of poetry, arise from ... the primal mythologies that Ferdowsi incorporated in the Shahnameh as the epic progressed from myth to legend ...

Over the last 15 years, Iranian-born polymath Hamid Rahmanian has created popup books, large-scale cinematic shadow-plays, and concert experiences, telling the story of the Shahnameh, an epic poem ...

Part 9 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.