Salaam and befarmaayin. About me: I am a practice-led PhD student in Iranian diasporic and autobiographical filmmaking at University of Bristol. My film practice is located around the home and familial material - archive, photography, documentary and short films. Have made some modest shorts and worked on television documentaries for several years. Currently writing and developing a longer fiction short film. Mostly I daydream. If you’d like to get in touch, email me > nmassoumi at me.comTumblr (3.0; @nazmassoumi)http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a66585a414c9f15b32e96ecb84b65fe4/tumblr_mnmhjbgQE01roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3b1183a27a633f168de8cf54d8465d19/tumblr_mnmhjbgQE01roimqdo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a04ef70de71a58ec175a293665f61017/tumblr_mnmhjbgQE01roimqdo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/df4854746a328b1bc2ee869e67e67ef3/tumblr_mnmhjbgQE01roimqdo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4f466d496ed4ebfddf4e53162577baf9/tumblr_mnmhjbgQE01roimqdo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Bristol rally for People’s Assembly, Wed May 29th</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/51735884220http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/51735884220Thu, 30 May 2013 18:49:59 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e72fe1a523b6664e4c9e1a28473d69a1/tumblr_mn1mhwADd41roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/50812539147http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/50812539147Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:32 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/be1738f02e12f588c5ba38bd85448167/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c80d82212ecd52732c7c493ef7408d7/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/466ef4f26f3c71aa1b30e2ccf674ddc3/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3c2cc9a79fb63a14cae155b899e49b9/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/35b090a13c243decd122c3c9ebf73291/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0881d88eb5db602083a89906a4aadca8/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/96dfac45d4da7f0f5879e4e4e5d9f2ae/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/400730137430125360f41008d6febc45/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/daf6c94efbd3a59a7f22b3e2143330d7/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a8bbabcfd29b79a9d3e815a723c60919/tumblr_mn1mg84uQd1roimqdo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/50812510284http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/50812510284Sun, 19 May 2013 12:26:32 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e58d3af587003210e4eb1ce79ddc9e85/tumblr_midy34ynv51roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bristol, late afternoon</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/43346087803http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/43346087803Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:21:04 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/dd6ff9820d056f1e83eda3683aa75cde/tumblr_midcgnQRyC1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/43310862854http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/43310862854Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:33:59 +0000<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7irh4yNftQw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Mohsen Makhmakbaaf’s <em>Salaam Cinema</em> (1995)</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/42868863423http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/42868863423Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:52:16 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8c4861d715126410ada868ca63c01713/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0c331ebd7525cb39800c35f01fcb7946/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76f686763950c3fe9c7fbf0620d696c4/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/eea1e2349cf33f58a3da35fbcb6266f6/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/26c0362ee802d35267023b5936cd092b/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c766a262352be39e3249969128619438/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/31e3f09682a5dcc41825fb0b4a68af4b/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b016a026af94fbcddde661c76752a1bd/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/943ab121f6e85857926d29aa5ce34203/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f61f65cdfa50a354562b35f08ba4c0bc/tumblr_mhdxnltljp1roimqdo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Tabriz and Kandovan, in spring 2008</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41778528498http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41778528498Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:38:09 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e0a85e24dcacc2ed3ed0bd9e759add2/tumblr_mh692fPJJR1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Last night I made my first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghormeh_sabzi"><em>Ghormeh Sabzi</em></a> which reminded me again that most Iranian food appears to have been invented in an era where all you did all day was cook. Controversially I used only two dried limes instead of the recommended five mainly because the traditional Iranian recipe is just too goddamn <em>torsh</em> (sour) for my non-Iranian guests. I also used twice the meat and substituted spring onions instead of chives on the recommendation of my mother and my sister who were phoned regularly throughout the process. But whilst the <i>ghormeh sabzi</i> was a success, I took my eye off the ball when it came to the <i>polo</i> (internationally recognised as the best form of rice) which came out slightly too dry. Luckily the <i>tardiq </i>was good. The experience did remind me of that famous Iranian saying: “don’t put all your shaam into vaan ghorme sabzi baasket” </p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41428785926http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41428785926Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:03:00 +0000<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N3_gN37ziAo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Bread and Alley (1970)</p> <p>Kiarostami’s first film is easily recognisable now as being very typical of his oeuvre: a child’s plight and inner sense of will against an immediate hostile environment for which the adult world has no answers. What is most enduring, however, is his use of a continually shifting point-of-view. This aspect has a strong resonance not only in his own work - in transnational endeveours like <em>Tickets</em> or <em>Certified Copy</em> for example - but has arguably been influential in Iranian cinema at large as films such as Mohsen Makhmalbaaf’s revered A Moment of Innocence  (or if we go by the original Iranian title Naan va Goldoon, i.e. Bread and Flower pot) and the Oscar-winning <em>A Separation</em> by Asghar Farhadi testify.</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41304765477http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41304765477Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:57:00 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3127506279389055f4d92ff42e9f0160/tumblr_mgzcenxBBR1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A <i>soghati</i> (souvenir) from my visit to Iran in 2008. I can’t translate what someone has scribbled on the note because in Farsi I’m <i>bisavaad</i> (illiterate) but I remember it being something among the lines of <i>marg bar Shah</i> (Down with ths Shah). Must check.</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41102873636http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/41102873636Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:32:47 +0000shahiranian revolution<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0c331ebd7525cb39800c35f01fcb7946/tumblr_mgv72awNmX1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tabriz, my mother’s birthplace, 2008</p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/40911399894http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/40911399894Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:46:58 +0000tabriziran<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e6492c89e56c944d9f2b18a69e2d9d6a/tumblr_mfuexj4Vfo1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/39210747759http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/39210747759Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:05:43 +0000<p><img height="318" src="http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/10/15/p465/121015_r22682_p465.jpg" width="465"/></p> <p>When in June 2009, Barack Obama described the President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak as a ‘force for stability and good in the region’ he was echoing the description US President Jimmy Carter had reserved for the Shah of Iran in 1978. Mubarak, like his Iranian counterpart, a dictator, was similarly overthrown in a popular revolution not long after his American Presidential blessing. And revolutions are far from stable. <em>Argo</em>, a new film directed by Ben Affleck about a CIA-operation to rescue a group of US embassy hostages during the Iranian revolution of 1979, might be seen as a similarly unfortunate appropriation of the past.</p> <p><br/><a href="http://www.payvand.com/news/12/nov/1147.html">Read more&#8230;</a></p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/35914974228http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/35914974228Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:15:00 +0000<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BEBKDupzQcQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/34903324311http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/34903324311Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:26:14 +0000<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DdQ4Yos1Fm4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/33951306733http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/33951306733Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:12:32 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbwa57EoO51roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/33579502081http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/33579502081Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:02:52 +0100<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cmQ3OvDuar0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="long-title " id="eow-title" title="1979 - Tazeh Nafas-ha/The Newborns *Iran months after the Revolution*">1979 - Tazeh Nafas-ha/The Newborns *Iran months after the Revolution* </span></h1></p>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/32834795460http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/32834795460Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:26:00 +0100<object width="400" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/player.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p00yzmhd&config=http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/config.xml&config_settings_showFooter=true&mediatorHref=http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/transferformat/plain/vpid/{id}&config_settings_language=en&config_settings_suppressRelatedLinks=true&embedPageUrl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yzmhd&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_showShareButton=true&uxHighlightColour=0x242124&guidance=unknown&config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&enable3G=true&domId=media-player-emp&embedReferer=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n3vq9" /><embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="315" flashvars="playlist=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p00yzmhd&config=http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayer/config.xml&config_settings_showFooter=true&mediatorHref=http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/transferformat/plain/vpid/{id}&config_settings_language=en&config_settings_suppressRelatedLinks=true&embedPageUrl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yzmhd&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_showShareButton=true&uxHighlightColour=0x242124&guidance=unknown&config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&enable3G=true&domId=media-player-emp&embedReferer=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n3vq9"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yzmhd">Health Before the NHS: a Medical Revolution</a></p> <p><strong>Monday October 1st 9pm BBC4</strong></p> <p><strong> Narrator</strong><span> Robert Winston</span></p> <p><strong>Director / Producer</strong><span> Naz Massoumi</span></p> <div class="section"> <div class="credits-list"><strong>Executive Producer</strong><span> Michael Poole</span></div> </div>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/32271763440http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/32271763440Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:11:00 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ep38rSHa1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/30306688359http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/30306688359Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:59:11 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8qjqrvl2W1roimqdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/29398102632http://nazmassoumi.tumblr.com/post/29398102632Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:04:03 +0100