● Birthplace: Tehran
● Website: www.robertsafarian.com
Biography
He is critic, lecturer and analyst of Iranian film and cinema. He graduated from school of National Iranian radio and television in 1974 and Persian language and literature from Payame Noor University in 1995 year. Sabarian, member of the jury of the filmmakers Association of 1997, the delegation of the Second International Documentary Festival of Kish 2000, the selection Board of the 3rd Documentary Festival of Kish 2001, the jury of the 4th Kish Documentary Festival 2002, The Selection Board of The Twenty-Twenty-first Volumes of The Tehran Festival and the Editorial Board of the Handes Armenian language Literature Magazine. He is responsible for the documentary film Section in the World of cinema-the truth, the specialized journal of documentary film and lecturer in the University of Isfahan’s Higher Education Institute, 2001 to 2003. Also, writing and translating dozens of articles about cinema and documentary in the country’s cinematic publications and participating in the radio and television programs as a film critic and documentary expert are among other activities. Robert Safarian, in the higher education Period: Film Studies: The Theory, the analysis, which was held in July 2018, and two chapters: the pathology of cash flow in Iranian cinema and also entries on the world cinema’s analytical history in the National School of Cinema taught. In his own words, the review of the film as a kind of critique, he said, one of the important points in the critique is that a cinematic critic when writing about the film should decide what aspect of the film will write for what a contact is, because writing about the aspect Artistic and technical film by writing about what is going on in film, as a review of the effect is different. “I believe that the film is a kind of journalistic criticism and opens the audience’s mentality towards the film that he wants to see, and the audience is somewhat aware of what works will see, but criticism in specialized magazines is different from the review of the film and the author of the Assumption That shows the audience of the film and the critic wants to analyze the effect in a specialized form.
Works
2016 – Kiarostami Cinema narrated by Robert Safarian – Rozaneh Publications
2010 – Interview in the documentary – Saghi Publishing
2008 – Charles Baudelaire’s Articles – Herfeh Publications: Author
2007 – Silence in Speakers: Articles on Sound in Cinema – Cinema House
2006 – Compilation of film and video – Publishing
2004 – Cinema History, by David Bourdwell and Christine Thomson – Markaz Publishing
2001 – Benevolent Woman and Happy Cat, Collection of Stories, by Victor Hugh Monroe – Mehraz Publishing
2001 – Authorship of Eros Diseases – Film Analysis of the Story of Michelangelo Antonioni – Farhang Kavosh Publications
2001 – Benevolent Woman and Happy Cat, Collection of Stories, by Victor Hugh Monroe – Mehraz Publishing
2001 – Sleepwalker, Analysis of Shadow by Alfred Hitchcock – Farhang Kavosh Publications
2000 – Translation: Humanism in Film Criticism, by Robin Wood – Markaz Publishing
1997 – Translation: Cinema Semiotics, by Christine Metz – Farhang Kavosh Publications
Movies
2013 – Documentary Between Two Nomads – (About the life and works of the Armenian-Iranian poet, Azad Matian and a look at the Armenian community in Iran)
2010 – Interview With The Revolution – (Conversation from more than thirty years with photos and videos remaining from the days of the Revolution)
2009 – Tehran – North – (About the roads of Tehran to the northern provinces of the country)
2009 – Travelers From The Caspian Sea – (About tourism in the north of the country)
2008 – November 5 (13 Aban) – The Day of The Fire – (Documentary about the events of November 5, 1978)
2008 – Tehran In The Photo – (Image of Tehran in the photos of different historical periods)
2007 – Pair Shish (Documentary about Masoud Kimiaei, co-directed by Ahmad Mireahsan)
2006 – Safarian of Inversion Films – (Documentary on Air Pollution in Tehran)
Activities
2001 to 2003 – Teaching Film Analysis at Isfahan Higher Education Institute
2000 to 2002 – Membership in the selection and judging boards of different periods of Kish Documentary Festival
Member of the editorial board of Film Report magazine until the end of its publication
Member of the Editorial Board of Handes – The Armenian Literary and Artistic Quarterly
Writing and translating dozens of reviews and articles about cinema and documentary cinema in the country’s cinema publications
Participate in radio and television cinema programs as a film critic and documentary film expert
One of the two founders and administrators of the courier documentary website (www.peykemostanad.com), the first specialized site of documentary cinema in Persian that is no longer uploaded.
Editor of Howis – The biweekly Armenian – Farsi newspaper
Festivals
2016 – 35st Fajr Film Festival-member of the Arbitration Committee
2004 – 21st Tehran Short Film Festival-selection committee member
2003 – 20st Tehran International Film Festival-selection committee member
2000 – 2nd in Kish Documentary film festival-selection committee member
