Persian carpets entered Europe via Portugal to establish one of the most important cultural traditions in terms of decorative arts in the West. Five hundred 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 have flown as they fly today through the screen (a mobile carpet) and experience its magical powers.
- Duration: 56
- Production year: 2008
- Country: Portugal
