The Making of"Feathers of Fire:A Persian Epic"

The UNIMA awarding-winning shadow theater with Director Hamid Rahmanian

Wednesday 9 am -10:30 am (Humphrey 25)

DESCRIPTION:

Join director Hamid Rahmanian for a talk about the UNIMA award winning 

production Feathers of Fire, a large scale shadow theater work that brings together 

168 puppets, 8 shadow casters and 1163 production cues. The play unfolds an 

action-packed magical tale of Zaul and Rudabeh, star-crossed lovers from the 

10th-century Persian epic Shahnameh - The Book of Kings. Rahmanian’s graphics, 

derived from the visual tradition of the region, are rendered as puppets, costumes,

 masks, scenography and digital animation, and employ the shadow casting 

techniques of shadow master Larry Reed. The play also features an original score 

by the acclaimed musical team, Loga Ramin Torkian & Azam Ali. Feathers of Fire 

had its world premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2016. In this artist 

talk, creator, designer and director, Hamid Rahmanian discusses the process and 

reveals some of the techniques that went into creating this shadow puppet show 

where puppets, performers and audio/visual material work together to create a live 

cinematic experience.

BIO:

Hamid Rahmanian is a 2014 John S. Guggenheim Fellow. He has created award-winning

documentary and fiction film, graphic design, literature and theater projects for over two decades.

His films have received international awards and screened worldwide at festivals, theaters and on

television. His latest undertaking, the Shahnameh Project, includes a 600 page illustrated edition

of the 1000-year-old Persian epic poem, Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings. Based on

his bestselling book, he created Feathers of Fire, a cinematic shadow play that premiered at the

Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2016 and has since toured around the world in 112 performances

and a total audience of 100,000;a pop up book called Zahhak:The Legend of the Serpent King and

an immersive audiobook of the original tome. Recently, Rahmanian was commissioned by the Silk

Road Ensemble to create a multimedia video animation for their upcoming project, HEROS, which

will premiere in 2019.

哈米·拉梅尼恩导演讲解国际偶戏联盟获奖皮影戏

《火之羽：一首波斯史诗》的制作

星期三上午9：00-10：30

地点：Humphrey 25

介绍

欢迎参加哈米·拉梅尼恩导演关于国际偶戏联盟获奖作品《火之羽》的座谈。这部大型皮影戏作品汇集了168款皮影戏偶、8个皮影戏演员和1163个制作线索。这部戏呈现了10世纪波斯史诗《列王纪》中一对命运多舛的恋人——宙和卢妲贝之间动感十足的神奇故事。《列王纪》中的图像源自于该地区的视觉传统，以木偶、服装、面具、舞台布景和数字动画等形式呈现出来，并运用了皮影大师赖瑞·理德的皮影投射技术。该剧的另一大亮点是由享有盛名的 “洛加·拉明·托尔金和阿扎姆·阿里”乐队所带来的原创配乐。《火之羽》于2016年在布鲁克林音乐学院完成世界首演。在这场艺术家座谈中，创作者、设计者和导演哈米·拉梅尼恩将讨论这部木偶皮影戏的制作过程，展示创作这部木偶皮影戏中所用到的一些技术，在戏中，木偶、表演者和声音/视觉材料共同发挥作用，打造出一种现场影院的体验。

艺术家简介

哈米·拉梅尼恩是2014年约翰·西蒙·古根海姆基金奖得主。在过去二十多年的从业生涯中，他创作了很多获奖纪录片和科幻电影、平面设计以及文学与戏剧项目。他的电影获得多项国际大奖并在全世界各大电影节、影院和电视台上放映。他最新打造的《列王纪》项目包括一部拥有600页插图的波斯千年史诗《列王纪：波斯诸王史诗》。他以自己的畅销书为基础，创作了《火之羽》这部影院式皮影戏。该戏于2016年在布鲁克林音乐学院首映，之后在全球共巡演了112场，累计有100,000名观众观看了表演，还推出了一部名为《扎哈克:蛇王传说》的立体图书和这部原版巨著的沉浸式有声读物。最近，拉梅尼恩受丝路合奏团委托，为他们即将开展的HEROS项目创作一部将在2019年首映的多媒体视频动画。

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