"Among Pebbles and Diamonds"

4:47 min ,16mm transferred to HD, color, sound, 2021
By Mehregan Meysami
Sound (Kulning/ herding call): Gudrun Engberg 
Camera, editing and narration: Mehregan Meysami
Film processing and scanning: Focus Film

“Among Pebbles and Diamonds” is a landscape duet: for “the land of rugged mountains, vast deserts” and “the land of endless heavenly waters”. It is about: the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, dehumanization, and the violence that is embedded in the landscape of a desert, which may be hidden but is irrefutable.


The title of the work is borrowed from the poem “Among Pebbles and Diamonds” written by Ehsan Tabari (Iranian poet) in 1977.