1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:13,596 --> 00:00:16,683 [rustling] 4 00:00:43,752 --> 00:00:46,463 [soft music playing] 5 00:00:47,047 --> 00:00:48,757 [video call ringing] 6 00:00:51,509 --> 00:00:52,761 [man in Farsi] 7 00:00:52,844 --> 00:00:54,679 [Sara] 8 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:55,847 [Mahmoud] 9 00:00:56,431 --> 00:00:58,266 [Sara] 10 00:01:17,619 --> 00:01:21,164 [crowd shouting] 11 00:01:21,789 --> 00:01:24,542 [gunfire] 12 00:01:24,876 --> 00:01:26,711 [reporter in English] The end of Iran's monarchy 13 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:29,339 came early today when Khomeini's followers 14 00:01:29,381 --> 00:01:31,216 took control of the palace of the Shah. 15 00:01:31,257 --> 00:01:35,303 -[gunfire] -[shouting] 16 00:01:35,387 --> 00:01:37,806 [reporter 2] But there are fears among at least some Iranians 17 00:01:37,889 --> 00:01:40,558 that the repression of the Shah may soon be replaced 18 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,520 by the bigotry of the Muslim priests. 19 00:01:44,062 --> 00:01:47,107 [crowd shouting] 20 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:51,152 [Nicky in Farsi] 21 00:02:18,638 --> 00:02:21,641 [chanting] 22 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:02,474 [in English] You can't just let it go. 23 00:03:02,849 --> 00:03:05,977 You can read what happened in the revolution 24 00:03:06,061 --> 00:03:07,520 through those paintings. 25 00:03:07,604 --> 00:03:10,398 Historically, those are really important. 26 00:03:10,482 --> 00:03:13,902 They not be greatest painting of all time, 27 00:03:14,444 --> 00:03:17,655 but there is a record of that time. 28 00:03:18,156 --> 00:03:20,408 And it's a real record. 29 00:03:22,744 --> 00:03:23,953 I want that. 30 00:03:23,995 --> 00:03:27,999 I want to somehow get it out, 31 00:03:28,833 --> 00:03:29,918 bring it here. 32 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:32,671 [mellow music playing] 33 00:03:38,093 --> 00:03:40,553 [vocalizations] 34 00:03:40,637 --> 00:03:43,348 [woman 1] He was one of the most important living artists 35 00:03:43,430 --> 00:03:45,850 in Iran and in the United States 36 00:03:45,892 --> 00:03:47,477 in our lifetime. 37 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:53,692 [woman 2] The very foundation of his paintings 38 00:03:54,150 --> 00:03:57,404 are people versus people of power. 39 00:04:01,991 --> 00:04:03,993 [woman 1] His art is threatening to people. 40 00:04:04,035 --> 00:04:07,372 It's threatening not just to the Iranian establishment. 41 00:04:07,455 --> 00:04:10,542 It's also threatening to some people in the West. 42 00:04:16,339 --> 00:04:21,594 [woman 3] 43 00:04:23,888 --> 00:04:26,599 [vocalizations continue] 44 00:04:32,647 --> 00:04:34,899 [woman 1] Did someone put the art 45 00:04:34,983 --> 00:04:37,569 in a special storage area? 46 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:39,988 Did someone steal the art? 47 00:04:40,071 --> 00:04:41,865 Did the art get destroyed? 48 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:43,074 We don't know. 49 00:04:47,245 --> 00:04:48,955 [woman 4] It's like somebody dying. 50 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:51,124 The body has never been found. 51 00:04:51,207 --> 00:04:53,418 It's just a big chunk of-of his life 52 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:54,794 that has disappeared. 53 00:04:54,878 --> 00:04:57,839 So there's the trauma of losing his country, 54 00:04:57,922 --> 00:05:01,468 and then there's the trauma of losing part of himself. 55 00:05:02,886 --> 00:05:04,471 [vocalizations continue] 56 00:05:04,554 --> 00:05:05,597 [camera shutter clicks] 57 00:05:06,056 --> 00:05:09,934 [Sara] That exhibition changed our life forever. 58 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,437 [camera shutter clicks] 59 00:05:20,278 --> 00:05:21,696 [music fades] 60 00:05:39,506 --> 00:05:41,132 Do you see this one? 61 00:05:41,174 --> 00:05:42,967 Yeah, I hate that. 62 00:05:43,009 --> 00:05:44,052 [Nicky laughs] 63 00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:45,387 [in Farsi] 64 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:48,515 [in English] I just hate those pictures of me... 65 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:50,475 nude. 66 00:05:50,558 --> 00:05:53,186 What are these paint-- When were these done? 67 00:05:53,269 --> 00:05:54,479 1981. 68 00:05:54,562 --> 00:05:56,648 You wanna write it on the back of it? 69 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:58,316 [in Farsi] 70 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,569 -[in English] No. -Just, just with a pencil, 1981. 71 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:03,279 -Can I write it? -No. 72 00:06:03,321 --> 00:06:05,699 Are you sure, 1981? 73 00:06:05,782 --> 00:06:07,033 [Nicky] Yes. 74 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:16,292 [Sara] So, are these similar to the work that's missing? 75 00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:18,169 [Nicky] A little bit, yes. 76 00:06:18,211 --> 00:06:20,130 [vibrant music playing] 77 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:44,696 Sara, just be careful. 78 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:47,365 The shoulder of this lady 79 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:51,369 would be matched with the shoulder of this guy. 80 00:06:51,453 --> 00:06:55,957 He's going to be half man, half woman. 81 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:57,625 Something like that. 82 00:06:59,919 --> 00:07:02,881 [Sara] This is the evangelical hypocrisy, 83 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:03,882 maybe? 84 00:07:03,965 --> 00:07:06,676 Okay, you can make whatever you want, 85 00:07:06,718 --> 00:07:08,595 the story. 86 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:13,641 [in Farsi] 87 00:07:15,018 --> 00:07:17,562 [Mahmoud] 88 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:20,899 [Sara] 89 00:07:21,524 --> 00:07:23,693 [Mahmoud] 90 00:07:31,034 --> 00:07:34,120 [call to prayer echoing] 91 00:07:37,624 --> 00:07:39,459 [woman in English] Who is Nicky meeting again? 92 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:42,962 So Nicky is meeting Mahmoudreza Bahmanpour. 93 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:45,590 He lives in Iran, 94 00:07:45,632 --> 00:07:47,342 but we're meeting in Turkey 95 00:07:47,425 --> 00:07:50,178 because Nicky can't go to Iran. 96 00:07:50,804 --> 00:07:53,598 Bahmanpour knows people in the museum, 97 00:07:53,682 --> 00:07:57,686 and the plan is for him to help us get the paintings back. 98 00:07:59,354 --> 00:08:02,148 [indistinct greetings] 99 00:08:13,118 --> 00:08:15,912 [Mahmoud in Farsi] 100 00:08:29,426 --> 00:08:31,136 [Nicky] 101 00:08:34,556 --> 00:08:36,558 [laughter] 102 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:42,688 [Nicky] 103 00:09:14,512 --> 00:09:16,598 [crowd cheering] 104 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:18,641 [reporter in English] The Imperial Majesty, 105 00:09:18,683 --> 00:09:19,684 king of kings, 106 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:21,770 Shahanshah of Iran. 107 00:09:21,853 --> 00:09:23,813 He's one of the richest men in the world. 108 00:09:23,855 --> 00:09:25,398 He appoints the prime minister. 109 00:09:25,482 --> 00:09:27,025 He can dissolve the parliament. 110 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:29,611 He controls the army. He controls the press. 111 00:09:29,694 --> 00:09:32,947 Very little criticism of him is allowed. 112 00:09:33,823 --> 00:09:35,617 [Karim] The Shah was an ally 113 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:38,203 of the United States and the British. 114 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:40,455 He was educated in the West. 115 00:09:40,538 --> 00:09:44,250 In some ways, he ruled at the behest 116 00:09:44,334 --> 00:09:46,169 of Western powers. 117 00:09:46,211 --> 00:09:47,587 [applause] 118 00:09:47,671 --> 00:09:50,590 [soft, gloomy music playing] 119 00:09:50,674 --> 00:09:54,260 In the early 1970s, there was an oil boom 120 00:09:55,470 --> 00:09:57,639 which provided resources 121 00:09:57,722 --> 00:09:59,224 to the Shah and the Queen 122 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:02,352 to do things no Iranian leaders in history 123 00:10:02,394 --> 00:10:03,895 had been able to do, 124 00:10:03,978 --> 00:10:07,565 whether that was to throw lavish international parties 125 00:10:07,607 --> 00:10:10,276 or build world-class art collection. 126 00:10:11,403 --> 00:10:13,571 [Shiva] The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 127 00:10:13,655 --> 00:10:15,115 opened in 1978, 128 00:10:15,532 --> 00:10:17,409 and, of course, the Queen of Iran, 129 00:10:17,492 --> 00:10:20,245 the Empress Farah was its patron. 130 00:10:21,413 --> 00:10:23,915 [Nicky] 131 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,597 [Shiva] When the revolution was successful 132 00:10:39,681 --> 00:10:41,683 in overthrowing the Shah, 133 00:10:41,766 --> 00:10:44,102 one of the first institutions 134 00:10:44,185 --> 00:10:45,854 that the revolutionaries took over 135 00:10:45,937 --> 00:10:49,065 was the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. 136 00:10:52,610 --> 00:10:54,446 [Mahmoud in Farsi] 137 00:11:01,619 --> 00:11:04,122 [Sara] 138 00:11:04,622 --> 00:11:08,043 [Mahmoud] 139 00:11:20,805 --> 00:11:24,559 -[inaudible dialogue] -[gulls calling] 140 00:11:24,642 --> 00:11:27,687 [call to prayer echoing] 141 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:31,316 [tranquil music playing] 142 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:37,614 [Nicky in English] After I escaped, 143 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:40,992 I didn't think I would never go back to Iran. 144 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:47,665 [reporter] Images are trickling out 145 00:11:47,749 --> 00:11:49,125 from across Iran 146 00:11:49,167 --> 00:11:51,336 where thousands have taken to the streets 147 00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:53,088 in daring acts of defiance 148 00:11:53,171 --> 00:11:55,715 never seen before on this scale. 149 00:11:55,799 --> 00:11:57,342 [reporter 2] More women have been arrested 150 00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:59,844 for their activism by the Iranian Morality Police 151 00:11:59,886 --> 00:12:01,513 as the movement has grown. 152 00:12:01,596 --> 00:12:03,348 [reporter 3] Extraordinary protests 153 00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:05,016 continue across the country 154 00:12:05,058 --> 00:12:08,853 over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. 155 00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:11,940 Thousands of young Iranians 156 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:13,733 have joined the demonstrations, 157 00:12:13,817 --> 00:12:16,403 with women leading the charge. 158 00:12:26,996 --> 00:12:29,708 I believed that religion was made 159 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:32,961 to put down women, and, uh, 160 00:12:33,044 --> 00:12:37,465 it's a men decision to control women 161 00:12:37,549 --> 00:12:40,885 from every aspect of life. 162 00:12:42,804 --> 00:12:44,514 [Sara] When did you make these? 163 00:12:44,556 --> 00:12:47,559 Uh, about a few months ago when, uh, 164 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:51,479 the revolution started in Iran. 165 00:12:52,022 --> 00:12:55,150 They are holding a gun, 166 00:12:55,233 --> 00:12:59,195 and, uh, I'm suggesting that it's time 167 00:12:59,237 --> 00:13:00,864 to get armed. 168 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:07,954 [Linda] Nahid Hagigat was producing work 169 00:13:08,038 --> 00:13:09,789 about Iranian women 170 00:13:09,873 --> 00:13:12,083 before anyone else. 171 00:13:13,543 --> 00:13:17,255 She was also a role model for Iranian women artists, 172 00:13:17,339 --> 00:13:19,966 so all are standing on her shoulders in a way. 173 00:13:20,050 --> 00:13:21,926 Whether they knew of her work or not, 174 00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:25,680 she made their ascent possible. 175 00:13:25,764 --> 00:13:28,433 [gentle music playing] 176 00:13:36,483 --> 00:13:41,404 [Nahid] I entered the School of Visual Art in Tehran, 177 00:13:41,446 --> 00:13:43,573 and I was very happy there. 178 00:13:43,615 --> 00:13:45,283 It was like a renaissance. 179 00:13:48,119 --> 00:13:52,290 Nickzad got into the university a year after me. 180 00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:56,461 [Nicky] I saw Nahid and she was laughing, 181 00:13:56,544 --> 00:13:59,464 and I thought maybe she's much more approachable 182 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:01,257 than the other people. 183 00:14:17,315 --> 00:14:20,527 [Nahid] Nickzad was a kid from Kermanshah. 184 00:14:20,610 --> 00:14:23,154 He had a very thick accent, 185 00:14:23,238 --> 00:14:25,323 so we made fun of his accent. 186 00:14:25,407 --> 00:14:28,201 -[Sara] Why did you pick him? -Probably I liked him 187 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:31,496 because you never tease anyone if you don't like him. 188 00:14:31,538 --> 00:14:33,915 [Sara] What, were you like holding hands? 189 00:14:33,998 --> 00:14:37,168 It... it was difficult things to do in Tehran. 190 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:40,880 You would... you would never get to hold hands. 191 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:44,175 [Nahid] He showed interest in me, 192 00:14:44,259 --> 00:14:47,012 and I said, "Don't even think about it. 193 00:14:47,095 --> 00:14:48,638 I'm Jewish. You're Muslim." 194 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,017 But eventually, I saw love in him 195 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,894 and I felt love for him too. 196 00:14:59,607 --> 00:15:01,526 We both came from Iran, 197 00:15:01,568 --> 00:15:05,530 and we were both very passionate about our art. 198 00:15:06,072 --> 00:15:09,492 And that was not easy. 199 00:15:09,534 --> 00:15:11,494 That was not easy at all. 200 00:15:14,372 --> 00:15:15,415 [water drips] 201 00:15:15,498 --> 00:15:18,043 [paint swishing] 202 00:15:19,836 --> 00:15:21,963 [cart rattling] 203 00:15:22,047 --> 00:15:25,675 [vibrant music playing] 204 00:15:36,644 --> 00:15:39,606 [rapid vocalizations] 205 00:15:56,748 --> 00:15:59,709 [vocalizations stop, music calms] 206 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:05,382 [Nicky] What do you want me to tell you? 207 00:16:05,423 --> 00:16:08,802 [girl] What's it about? What's happening in this picture? 208 00:16:08,885 --> 00:16:10,303 Yeah, like, this person, he looks... 209 00:16:10,387 --> 00:16:12,013 I'm not gonna touch the painting. 210 00:16:12,097 --> 00:16:13,765 -[Nicky] You can touch. -But, um... 211 00:16:13,807 --> 00:16:16,393 [Nicky] This is my... Yeah, go ahead. 212 00:16:17,769 --> 00:16:19,062 What do you see? 213 00:16:19,104 --> 00:16:22,899 I see like, um, some kind of donkey tie-- 214 00:16:22,941 --> 00:16:24,859 with a fish tied up on it, 215 00:16:24,901 --> 00:16:27,612 and they're getting ready for an adventure, 216 00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:29,614 or they're having sex. 217 00:16:29,948 --> 00:16:31,324 Tied up. 218 00:16:31,616 --> 00:16:34,452 Having sex? [laughs] Okay. 219 00:16:34,536 --> 00:16:35,829 This one... 220 00:16:35,912 --> 00:16:38,039 It's about power. 221 00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:40,375 The red symbolize 222 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:44,004 the blood that comes after this situation. 223 00:16:44,087 --> 00:16:48,383 The man is a politician. Actually... 224 00:16:48,425 --> 00:16:49,467 [Mahmoud in Farsi] 225 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,553 [Sara] 226 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:54,806 [Mahmoud] 227 00:16:56,641 --> 00:16:59,436 [Sara] 228 00:17:07,609 --> 00:17:10,446 [Mahmoud] 229 00:17:28,673 --> 00:17:32,135 [Sara] 230 00:17:38,558 --> 00:17:41,519 [Mahmoud] 231 00:17:50,028 --> 00:17:52,113 [Sara] 232 00:18:03,708 --> 00:18:06,836 [Mahmoud] 233 00:18:09,506 --> 00:18:11,675 [Sara] 234 00:18:14,928 --> 00:18:18,390 [in English] The idea would be that she would maybe pose 235 00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:20,850 to make a film about something else. 236 00:18:20,892 --> 00:18:22,894 It's really a question for her. 237 00:18:22,977 --> 00:18:25,063 Is she willing to do such a thing? 238 00:18:25,105 --> 00:18:27,899 -[mellow music playing] -[video call ringing] 239 00:18:31,569 --> 00:18:33,655 [in Farsi] 240 00:18:33,738 --> 00:18:35,281 [laughter] 241 00:18:47,877 --> 00:18:50,422 [Sara] 242 00:19:10,233 --> 00:19:15,321 [filmmaker, distorted] 243 00:19:34,382 --> 00:19:37,635 ["The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals playing] 244 00:19:40,764 --> 00:19:42,349 [Nahid] I never thought 245 00:19:42,432 --> 00:19:46,227 that my parents would agree to marry a Muslim. 246 00:19:46,311 --> 00:19:49,647 I always knew that it's not gonna happen, 247 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:54,194 but I thought maybe if I get out of Tehran, 248 00:19:54,277 --> 00:19:56,488 maybe things change between us. 249 00:19:56,571 --> 00:19:59,616 I can go my way and he can go his way. 250 00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:04,788 I applied for New York University. 251 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:06,164 I was accepted, 252 00:20:06,247 --> 00:20:10,251 and I came to New York in 1968. 253 00:20:10,335 --> 00:20:15,340 ♪ There is a house in New Orleans ♪ 254 00:20:16,341 --> 00:20:20,679 ♪ They call the Rising Sun ♪ 255 00:20:22,681 --> 00:20:25,183 ♪ And it's been the ruin ♪ 256 00:20:25,266 --> 00:20:27,268 [Nahid] Nickzad joined me 257 00:20:27,352 --> 00:20:30,188 in July 1969. 258 00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:32,524 [Sara] Were you happy that he came? 259 00:20:32,607 --> 00:20:34,776 [Nahid] Of course I was happy. 260 00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:38,738 At the same time, I was very, very, very worried. 261 00:20:38,822 --> 00:20:41,783 How can I say anything to my parents? 262 00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:44,536 ["The House of the Rising Sun" continues] 263 00:20:45,203 --> 00:20:46,788 [Nicky] In New York, I got involved 264 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:50,375 with the Vietnam and anti-war movement... 265 00:20:50,458 --> 00:20:53,878 ♪ Sewed my new blue jeans ♪ 266 00:20:53,962 --> 00:20:55,755 [Nicky] ...Palestinian rights, 267 00:20:56,297 --> 00:20:58,550 and Black Panthers. 268 00:21:20,071 --> 00:21:21,823 Most of all, I was involved 269 00:21:21,906 --> 00:21:25,326 with the Iranian Student Association 270 00:21:25,410 --> 00:21:28,580 to expose the crimes of the Shah. 271 00:21:29,956 --> 00:21:31,624 ♪ Oh, mother ♪ 272 00:21:32,292 --> 00:21:34,586 ♪ Tell your children ♪ 273 00:21:36,046 --> 00:21:40,717 ♪ Not to do what I have done ♪ 274 00:21:42,385 --> 00:21:47,766 ♪ Spend your lives in sin and misery ♪ 275 00:21:48,516 --> 00:21:52,604 ♪♪ In the House of the Rising Sun ♪ 276 00:21:52,687 --> 00:21:55,190 [song ending] 277 00:21:55,273 --> 00:21:57,233 [Nahid] During that time, we lived 278 00:21:57,275 --> 00:22:01,112 in a railroad apartment in Williamsburg. 279 00:22:02,572 --> 00:22:04,741 He kept telling me 280 00:22:04,783 --> 00:22:07,285 that we should not do this, we should not do that, 281 00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:08,703 because we are going to Iran. 282 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,957 "Okay, let's get a telephone to call someone." 283 00:22:12,999 --> 00:22:14,334 "No, no telephone. 284 00:22:14,417 --> 00:22:16,419 We are not gonna get any telephone 285 00:22:16,461 --> 00:22:18,296 because we are going to Iran." 286 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:21,925 He was determined to go back to Iran, 287 00:22:21,966 --> 00:22:23,843 and I was not. 288 00:22:23,927 --> 00:22:26,388 [gentle music playing] 289 00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:29,891 [cars honking] 290 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,230 Nickzad went to Iran 291 00:22:35,313 --> 00:22:38,942 to have his own work exhibited. 292 00:22:40,985 --> 00:22:43,738 We decided that I should do that too, 293 00:22:43,822 --> 00:22:49,661 and he took maybe ten or twelve of my etchings to Iran. 294 00:22:51,663 --> 00:22:55,917 I made etchings about Iranian workers, 295 00:22:56,835 --> 00:22:58,253 peasants, 296 00:22:58,336 --> 00:23:00,338 factory workers, 297 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:03,800 rug weavers, basket weavers. 298 00:23:03,842 --> 00:23:06,845 And then I combined my knowledge 299 00:23:06,928 --> 00:23:11,224 from American artists like Andy Warhol 300 00:23:11,307 --> 00:23:13,977 and Iranian figurative. 301 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:23,403 That first show in Tehran 302 00:23:23,486 --> 00:23:26,072 was completely sold out. 303 00:23:26,364 --> 00:23:28,867 So we got very excited about that, 304 00:23:28,908 --> 00:23:30,618 and the next year, 305 00:23:30,702 --> 00:23:33,329 I sent another group of etchings, 306 00:23:33,371 --> 00:23:36,958 and that was, also, was sold out. 307 00:23:38,418 --> 00:23:40,545 But that was it. 308 00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:46,134 [Nicky] In Iran, I was interrogated 309 00:23:46,217 --> 00:23:47,552 by the SAVAK 310 00:23:47,594 --> 00:23:51,890 because of my political activism in New York. 311 00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:56,519 [Shah] We are now sophisticated enough 312 00:23:56,561 --> 00:23:59,856 to use the same methods that you people are using 313 00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:04,778 for interrogating the people that you have to. 314 00:24:06,571 --> 00:24:09,949 [Karim] SAVAK was the Shah's secret police. 315 00:24:11,076 --> 00:24:12,994 Trained by the CIA, 316 00:24:13,078 --> 00:24:14,913 SAVAK employed torture. 317 00:24:15,997 --> 00:24:17,415 The more he ruled, 318 00:24:17,499 --> 00:24:21,002 the more he became reliant on the SAVAK. 319 00:24:22,837 --> 00:24:24,756 -[shouting] -[keys jingling] 320 00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:26,257 [door clanging] 321 00:24:26,841 --> 00:24:29,427 [Nicky] In each interrogation, 322 00:24:29,761 --> 00:24:31,596 there were two chairs. 323 00:24:34,265 --> 00:24:36,518 One where I was sitting 324 00:24:36,601 --> 00:24:39,854 and one beside me, empty. 325 00:24:49,447 --> 00:24:51,616 Every time I paint, 326 00:24:51,658 --> 00:24:53,618 there is a chair. 327 00:25:05,046 --> 00:25:07,215 Uh, SAVAK send me 328 00:25:07,298 --> 00:25:11,803 to go to a secret house in Tehran. 329 00:25:13,054 --> 00:25:17,183 And two people would come, and they would ask the question 330 00:25:17,267 --> 00:25:19,644 and I had to write the answer. 331 00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,147 We never talk. 332 00:25:22,439 --> 00:25:25,775 Sometimes, one of them would leave the room, 333 00:25:25,817 --> 00:25:28,945 and this one would say, "Do what he asks." 334 00:25:28,987 --> 00:25:30,864 [Sara] And they also asked about the people 335 00:25:30,947 --> 00:25:33,491 at the Iranian Student Association? 336 00:25:33,575 --> 00:25:37,579 Yeah, they brought in the picture of most of them, 337 00:25:38,121 --> 00:25:41,875 with like 10, 15 people that were known. 338 00:25:41,958 --> 00:25:45,503 There was no reason to hide their names, 339 00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:48,048 so I would say, this and this, I know. 340 00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:50,258 Then I don't know the rest of them. 341 00:25:51,176 --> 00:25:52,969 [cell keys jingling] 342 00:25:53,011 --> 00:25:55,680 After three months interrogation, 343 00:25:55,722 --> 00:25:57,599 they said, "What do you want to do?" 344 00:25:57,682 --> 00:26:00,393 I said, "I'd like to be a teacher." 345 00:26:00,477 --> 00:26:01,936 They said, "No." 346 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:05,315 And I said, "Can I work in TV?" 347 00:26:05,357 --> 00:26:06,566 They said, "No." 348 00:26:06,649 --> 00:26:08,651 "Can I work in publishing house?" 349 00:26:08,693 --> 00:26:10,070 They said, "No." 350 00:26:11,738 --> 00:26:13,365 "So you're going back to New York?" 351 00:26:13,406 --> 00:26:14,657 I said, "Yes." 352 00:26:14,699 --> 00:26:17,577 They said, "Go to the sessions 353 00:26:17,660 --> 00:26:19,996 that you're usually going to 354 00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:22,207 and report to us." 355 00:26:22,707 --> 00:26:24,459 I said, "I'm not gonna do that." 356 00:26:24,542 --> 00:26:27,087 [grim music playing] 357 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,592 [Sara] You had to sign something? 358 00:26:32,676 --> 00:26:34,302 [Nicky] Actually, I did. 359 00:26:34,761 --> 00:26:38,473 "I accept the independent leadership 360 00:26:38,556 --> 00:26:40,892 and progression of the Shah." 361 00:26:42,894 --> 00:26:44,688 [camera shutter clicking] 362 00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:52,237 So, finally, I decided to go back to New York. 363 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:55,740 We protested all the time 364 00:26:55,824 --> 00:26:59,744 against the brutality of the SAVAK. 365 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:06,584 We wanted to have freedom of speech, 366 00:27:06,626 --> 00:27:09,671 freedom of participation in the government. 367 00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:15,385 [Sara] Did the Iranian student organization 368 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:16,761 change him as a person? 369 00:27:16,845 --> 00:27:17,929 [Nahid] They change him. 370 00:27:18,013 --> 00:27:20,598 He was not already like that. 371 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,268 [crowd shouting] 372 00:27:23,351 --> 00:27:25,603 Little by little, this group 373 00:27:25,645 --> 00:27:29,607 is going toward communism, 374 00:27:29,649 --> 00:27:32,819 especially Chinese communism. 375 00:27:32,902 --> 00:27:36,614 They are having these little red books 376 00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:39,784 written by Mao Zedong, 377 00:27:39,826 --> 00:27:42,454 and they are giving it away to everyone. 378 00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:46,374 This was not my cup of tea, 379 00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:50,920 but I went along with it a little bit. 380 00:27:51,296 --> 00:27:54,549 I did it for our marriage sakes. 381 00:27:54,632 --> 00:27:57,927 [light music playing] 382 00:27:59,387 --> 00:28:02,390 [children chattering] 383 00:28:03,808 --> 00:28:05,435 I told my mother 384 00:28:05,477 --> 00:28:08,355 that Nickzad is my boyfriend 385 00:28:08,438 --> 00:28:10,482 and we might get married. 386 00:28:10,899 --> 00:28:14,194 She was extremely upset. 387 00:28:14,277 --> 00:28:16,529 [Nicky] Nahid's parents 388 00:28:16,613 --> 00:28:18,531 threaten her. 389 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:21,117 If she gets married with me, 390 00:28:21,493 --> 00:28:25,497 she would be out of the family. 391 00:28:26,081 --> 00:28:28,458 They would never talk to her. 392 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:34,255 We did it anyway. 393 00:28:34,339 --> 00:28:36,174 [projector clicking] 394 00:28:38,677 --> 00:28:39,719 [Sara laughs] 395 00:28:39,803 --> 00:28:41,930 This... this is... 396 00:29:07,664 --> 00:29:09,708 [Sara] You said that, afterwards, 397 00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:11,334 you went to a protest. 398 00:29:11,376 --> 00:29:14,212 [Nicky] Yes. I went back to the Iran House... 399 00:29:14,295 --> 00:29:16,840 [Sara] So didn't you think, like, "It's our wedding day, 400 00:29:16,881 --> 00:29:18,550 maybe we should make it special"? 401 00:29:18,633 --> 00:29:22,887 -This kind of normal life... -These are bourgeois things 402 00:29:22,929 --> 00:29:25,306 that you're not supposed to do. 403 00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:28,351 [tranquil music playing] 404 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,533 [Sara] Did you both look down on this kind of life 405 00:30:25,617 --> 00:30:26,951 or just you? 406 00:30:27,035 --> 00:30:30,080 Just me. That's the... That's the difference. 407 00:30:30,121 --> 00:30:33,667 If you're revolutionary, you should be revolutionary. 408 00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:38,421 Everything should be tough and rough and ready for a fight. 409 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,175 [foreboding music playing] 410 00:30:46,805 --> 00:30:49,641 [woman singing in Farsi] 411 00:30:54,854 --> 00:30:56,314 [camera shutter clicks] 412 00:30:57,190 --> 00:30:59,150 You want to do really something 413 00:30:59,234 --> 00:31:02,153 that disturbs people, confuse people, 414 00:31:03,029 --> 00:31:05,073 make them uncomfortable. 415 00:31:08,702 --> 00:31:11,454 [Shiva] If you look at a Nicky Nodjoumi painting, 416 00:31:12,247 --> 00:31:15,375 he's speaking about what's happening in the world today. 417 00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:20,046 He reads the newspaper, 418 00:31:20,130 --> 00:31:22,841 and he starts drawing on the goddamn newspaper. 419 00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:26,511 Like, he can't even process the news 420 00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:28,013 without making art about it. 421 00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:29,347 That's how he sees, 422 00:31:29,389 --> 00:31:30,974 that's how he understands the world, 423 00:31:31,016 --> 00:31:32,684 is making art. 424 00:31:39,315 --> 00:31:41,192 He has environmental concerns, 425 00:31:41,276 --> 00:31:45,071 but he also has concerns about constructed borders 426 00:31:45,155 --> 00:31:47,949 and who gets to live within these borders 427 00:31:48,033 --> 00:31:49,993 and who gets kept out. 428 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:53,371 He has concerns about war. 429 00:31:53,413 --> 00:31:55,123 He has concerns about revolutions. 430 00:31:55,206 --> 00:31:58,001 And these are not just political concerns. 431 00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:00,712 They're also his personal experience. 432 00:32:00,754 --> 00:32:04,132 [singing continues] 433 00:32:07,260 --> 00:32:09,763 [Linda] There are some things that are very unsettling 434 00:32:09,846 --> 00:32:11,264 in his art. 435 00:32:13,141 --> 00:32:15,894 There's the sense of paranoia. 436 00:32:15,935 --> 00:32:18,188 Sometimes, something horrible happening. 437 00:32:18,229 --> 00:32:21,066 At other times, they're not explained. 438 00:32:23,276 --> 00:32:26,071 If there's a narrative going on, it's up to the viewer 439 00:32:26,154 --> 00:32:28,615 to fill in what it is that you're seeing. 440 00:32:29,908 --> 00:32:31,743 [Shirin] Nicky has this capability 441 00:32:31,785 --> 00:32:33,161 of being a fighter 442 00:32:33,244 --> 00:32:36,289 because that's what he had to do all his life. 443 00:32:40,085 --> 00:32:41,628 [Clare] I'd say he's kaleidoscopic 444 00:32:41,711 --> 00:32:45,924 in the sense that he has these very different references 445 00:32:45,965 --> 00:32:47,842 that all come together 446 00:32:47,926 --> 00:32:50,178 without ever gelling into something 447 00:32:50,261 --> 00:32:52,430 that seems resolved. 448 00:32:52,514 --> 00:32:55,642 There's always a sense of tension. 449 00:32:56,768 --> 00:33:00,063 Something beyond articulation 450 00:33:00,105 --> 00:33:01,773 related to power. 451 00:33:01,856 --> 00:33:04,567 [mellow music playing] 452 00:33:08,113 --> 00:33:10,198 ♪ Can't you see ♪ 453 00:33:10,907 --> 00:33:12,951 ♪ I am here ♪ 454 00:33:13,451 --> 00:33:17,914 ♪ Trying to get through the lonely times ♪ 455 00:33:17,956 --> 00:33:20,125 [Nicky] I was born in Kermanshah, 456 00:33:20,166 --> 00:33:22,460 close to Iraqi border. 457 00:33:23,628 --> 00:33:25,755 My father was an army man. 458 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,344 [Firooz] Father was hard on us. 459 00:33:31,428 --> 00:33:36,641 I don't like to call him, at this time, dictator, 460 00:33:36,725 --> 00:33:38,018 but he was. 461 00:33:38,101 --> 00:33:40,603 He was... He-he loved discipline. 462 00:33:43,023 --> 00:33:46,151 [Nicky] I was the oldest of the boys. 463 00:33:47,527 --> 00:33:51,114 So anything happens, I was responsible. 464 00:33:51,448 --> 00:33:53,491 So I would get the punishment. 465 00:33:53,575 --> 00:33:54,826 ♪ Always fear ♪ 466 00:33:55,994 --> 00:33:57,537 ♪ And disappear ♪ 467 00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:00,832 [Sara] I remember you always had nightmares. 468 00:34:01,166 --> 00:34:02,500 [Nicky] Yes. 469 00:34:04,336 --> 00:34:06,296 [Nicky] 470 00:34:32,864 --> 00:34:34,532 [laughs] 471 00:34:34,574 --> 00:34:36,618 [Sara] Wow. [laughs] 472 00:34:36,868 --> 00:34:38,203 Thief! 473 00:34:40,705 --> 00:34:42,373 [Nicky] I am happy 474 00:34:42,456 --> 00:34:45,752 with the darkness that is in me. 475 00:34:46,085 --> 00:34:49,714 I might show it in my painting, the harshness, 476 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:51,716 but in real life, 477 00:34:51,757 --> 00:34:54,761 I try to be much nicer 478 00:34:54,844 --> 00:34:56,471 as much as I can. 479 00:34:57,889 --> 00:34:59,891 -What is this? -This is... 480 00:34:59,974 --> 00:35:02,727 The best move? There is no best move. 481 00:35:02,811 --> 00:35:04,062 Our downward dogs. 482 00:35:04,104 --> 00:35:06,648 [indistinct lyrics] 483 00:35:06,731 --> 00:35:08,191 -Please. -Yes! 484 00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:09,859 ♪ Can't you help me out... ♪ 485 00:35:09,901 --> 00:35:11,236 So like this? 486 00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:14,906 [Nicky] Okay, [indistinct]. 487 00:35:14,989 --> 00:35:16,408 ♪ My biggest fear ♪ 488 00:35:16,449 --> 00:35:18,993 ♪ But sometimes, nightmares happen ♪ 489 00:35:19,077 --> 00:35:23,206 [music fades] 490 00:35:23,748 --> 00:35:25,458 I got a name for him. 491 00:35:25,542 --> 00:35:26,918 Okay, what name? 492 00:35:27,002 --> 00:35:29,879 The guy who has been there for 40 years. 493 00:35:29,921 --> 00:35:31,840 -Uh-huh. -And he knows about the show. 494 00:35:31,923 --> 00:35:34,592 [in Farsi] 495 00:35:58,533 --> 00:36:00,785 [filmmaker] 496 00:36:29,731 --> 00:36:32,734 [Sara] 497 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:40,825 [tense music playing] 498 00:36:42,327 --> 00:36:43,661 [Sara in English] When Nickzad was in 499 00:36:43,745 --> 00:36:46,623 the Iranian Student Association, 500 00:36:46,664 --> 00:36:50,210 did the group ever talk about a revolution? 501 00:36:50,293 --> 00:36:52,003 [Nahid] They were mentioning 502 00:36:52,045 --> 00:36:54,464 the head of the religion in Paris 503 00:36:54,506 --> 00:36:56,216 by the name of Khomeini. 504 00:36:56,299 --> 00:36:58,051 [reporter] The voice that may well decide 505 00:36:58,134 --> 00:36:59,678 the future of the country 506 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,514 comes not from Tehran but from Paris. 507 00:37:02,847 --> 00:37:04,307 Ayatollah Khomeini, 508 00:37:04,349 --> 00:37:05,684 a man the Western governments 509 00:37:05,767 --> 00:37:08,311 may shortly have to learn to deal with. 510 00:37:09,521 --> 00:37:11,481 But Khomeini says he does not want power. 511 00:37:11,523 --> 00:37:14,025 He simply wants the Shah to go. 512 00:37:14,067 --> 00:37:16,069 [Nahid] This was during the time 513 00:37:16,152 --> 00:37:18,363 that, every day in Iran, 514 00:37:18,405 --> 00:37:20,532 people were gathering. 515 00:37:20,615 --> 00:37:22,701 Thousands and thousands and thousands. 516 00:37:22,742 --> 00:37:27,539 Men putting their children over their shoulder 517 00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:31,876 and teaching them to say, "Marg bar Shah, Marg bar Shah." 518 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,128 "Death to Shah." 519 00:37:33,211 --> 00:37:35,797 [crowd chanting] 520 00:37:41,052 --> 00:37:44,014 [reporter] The world had never before seen anything like this. 521 00:37:44,055 --> 00:37:45,598 The ruler of an oil-rich country 522 00:37:45,682 --> 00:37:47,559 and strategic ally of the West 523 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,228 on the brink of being toppled by a revolution. 524 00:37:50,603 --> 00:37:53,898 Iranian streets were seized by massive protests. 525 00:37:53,982 --> 00:37:56,151 [crowd chanting] 526 00:37:56,234 --> 00:37:58,570 [crowd cheering] 527 00:37:58,611 --> 00:38:01,406 During that time, Nickzad couldn't take it anymore. 528 00:38:01,489 --> 00:38:03,408 He said, "I have to be there." 529 00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:05,910 He was completely flared up 530 00:38:05,994 --> 00:38:07,328 with this uprising, 531 00:38:07,412 --> 00:38:09,622 and he just didn't want to miss it. 532 00:38:09,706 --> 00:38:14,002 So Nickzad decided to go back to Iran 533 00:38:14,085 --> 00:38:16,671 and help the leftists. 534 00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:18,715 And he told me, "Go on your way 535 00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:21,009 because I don't know what's gonna happen to me, 536 00:38:21,092 --> 00:38:25,764 and this is going to be the end of our marriage." 537 00:38:26,723 --> 00:38:28,016 At that time, 538 00:38:28,058 --> 00:38:30,060 you were like four, five years old. 539 00:38:30,101 --> 00:38:31,603 You were feeling the tension, 540 00:38:31,644 --> 00:38:34,481 and I thought maybe if I take you from New York 541 00:38:34,564 --> 00:38:37,525 to a warmer place, maybe you'll feel better. 542 00:38:37,942 --> 00:38:42,739 So we went to Florida and he went to Iran. 543 00:38:42,822 --> 00:38:46,326 [intense music playing] 544 00:38:57,337 --> 00:39:00,840 [intense, dramatic vocalizations] 545 00:39:11,309 --> 00:39:14,979 -[music calming] -[crowd clamoring] 546 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,816 [Nicky] By the time I got to Tehran, 547 00:39:17,899 --> 00:39:20,860 it was already huge demonstration, 548 00:39:20,944 --> 00:39:23,321 and right away I joined the crowd. 549 00:39:23,363 --> 00:39:26,783 -[crowd shouting] -[intense music playing] 550 00:39:26,825 --> 00:39:28,368 It was tremendous. 551 00:39:28,451 --> 00:39:30,412 So emotional. 552 00:39:37,502 --> 00:39:40,338 I was at every protest. 553 00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:42,007 I was everywhere. 554 00:39:45,969 --> 00:39:47,345 [Sara] At that time, 555 00:39:47,387 --> 00:39:50,432 Nahid and I would watch the news at night, 556 00:39:50,515 --> 00:39:53,018 and I remember there was one time 557 00:39:53,059 --> 00:39:55,353 there was some man on a car 558 00:39:55,437 --> 00:39:58,481 screaming into the protest, 559 00:39:58,523 --> 00:40:00,900 and I only-- you could see only his back, 560 00:40:00,984 --> 00:40:03,361 and I was like, "That's Nickzad! That's Nickzad!" 561 00:40:03,445 --> 00:40:05,572 I looked for you in the news. 562 00:40:06,114 --> 00:40:07,323 [gunfire] 563 00:40:07,365 --> 00:40:09,034 [explosion] 564 00:40:09,075 --> 00:40:10,660 [gunfire] 565 00:40:10,702 --> 00:40:13,455 Was there ever a time where you were scared? 566 00:40:14,581 --> 00:40:16,541 [Nicky] There was bullets all the time 567 00:40:16,624 --> 00:40:18,335 there was a demonstration. 568 00:40:18,376 --> 00:40:20,086 [shouting] 569 00:40:20,170 --> 00:40:23,173 -[gunshots] -[telephone ringing] 570 00:40:23,715 --> 00:40:26,801 [Sara] But you never thought, "Maybe I should just stay home"? 571 00:40:26,885 --> 00:40:27,719 [Nicky] No. 572 00:40:27,761 --> 00:40:29,387 This was the important thing 573 00:40:29,471 --> 00:40:31,389 that we were looking for. 574 00:40:31,431 --> 00:40:34,059 So why should I stay home? 575 00:40:34,684 --> 00:40:37,354 [Sara] How often would you talk to Nahid? 576 00:40:37,395 --> 00:40:40,732 Every... couple of months. 577 00:40:40,815 --> 00:40:44,235 It was difficult to really make a phone call. 578 00:40:44,319 --> 00:40:46,696 -[Sara] Every couple of months? -Yeah. 579 00:40:46,738 --> 00:40:49,491 [Sara] It thought it would... like once a week. 580 00:40:49,949 --> 00:40:51,701 Did you miss me? 581 00:40:51,993 --> 00:40:53,078 No. 582 00:40:56,081 --> 00:40:57,290 [Sara] Apparently not, 583 00:40:57,374 --> 00:41:00,085 if you only called once every two months. 584 00:41:00,126 --> 00:41:02,921 [dramatic music playing] 585 00:41:04,047 --> 00:41:06,383 [Nicky] The revolution brought a lot of people 586 00:41:06,424 --> 00:41:08,259 from different persuasion 587 00:41:08,343 --> 00:41:09,928 under one umbrella. 588 00:41:09,969 --> 00:41:12,847 Intellectuals, religious people, 589 00:41:12,931 --> 00:41:17,060 liberals, Marxists, and students. 590 00:41:19,479 --> 00:41:22,065 [crowd chanting] 591 00:41:27,696 --> 00:41:30,031 [chanting continues] 592 00:41:30,115 --> 00:41:32,617 [reporter] The crowd shouted, "Death to the Shah." 593 00:41:33,034 --> 00:41:35,787 Among the despised symbols of their monarch, 594 00:41:35,829 --> 00:41:38,790 the marchers raised pictures of the Shah's antagonist, 595 00:41:38,873 --> 00:41:42,961 the bearded, fierce-eyed holy man, Ayatollah Khomeini. 596 00:41:43,628 --> 00:41:45,505 [reporter 2] A tearful Shah of Iran 597 00:41:45,588 --> 00:41:47,799 left his country today on a vacation 598 00:41:47,841 --> 00:41:49,884 from which he may never return. 599 00:41:49,968 --> 00:41:51,636 [crowd chanting] 600 00:41:51,678 --> 00:41:52,887 [reporter 1] The Shah's departure 601 00:41:52,971 --> 00:41:55,265 made Ayatollah Khomeini, in effect, 602 00:41:55,306 --> 00:41:57,559 the new ruler of Iran. 603 00:42:00,061 --> 00:42:03,064 [dramatic music playing] 604 00:42:12,323 --> 00:42:15,160 [indistinct shouting] 605 00:42:15,410 --> 00:42:18,830 [Nicky] 606 00:42:38,350 --> 00:42:40,643 Khomeini had this white beard 607 00:42:40,685 --> 00:42:43,521 which was to make him much more... 608 00:42:43,605 --> 00:42:45,357 -[in Farsi] -[Sara in English] Godlike. 609 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,650 [Nicky] The portrait that I did, 610 00:42:47,692 --> 00:42:50,570 I made it totally black. 611 00:42:52,447 --> 00:42:54,991 [projector clicking] 612 00:42:56,951 --> 00:43:00,413 He represented the idea of Islam 613 00:43:00,497 --> 00:43:04,209 the way he wanted everybody to follow. 614 00:43:06,211 --> 00:43:07,921 [projector clicking] 615 00:43:08,296 --> 00:43:09,381 Oh. 616 00:43:09,714 --> 00:43:11,800 This is hypocrisy 617 00:43:11,883 --> 00:43:15,303 of Islamic Republic of Iran. 618 00:43:16,596 --> 00:43:19,307 [crowd chanting] 619 00:43:19,349 --> 00:43:21,810 [Sara] What happened to the people 620 00:43:21,893 --> 00:43:25,730 who were not religious protestors? 621 00:43:28,316 --> 00:43:30,068 [Nicky] 622 00:43:43,623 --> 00:43:46,751 [tense music playing] 623 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,047 It was heartbreaking. 624 00:43:51,923 --> 00:43:53,341 [gunfire] 625 00:43:55,093 --> 00:43:56,720 After revolution, 626 00:43:56,761 --> 00:43:58,930 we-we got the taste 627 00:43:58,972 --> 00:44:02,934 of the harsh, harsh dictatorship. 628 00:44:02,976 --> 00:44:06,104 We had the Shah's dictatorship, and that was bad, 629 00:44:06,146 --> 00:44:10,900 but it was nothing compared to the Islamic dictatorship. 630 00:44:13,945 --> 00:44:15,822 [reporter] The American embassy in Tehran 631 00:44:15,905 --> 00:44:18,450 is in the hands of Muslim students tonight. 632 00:44:18,491 --> 00:44:19,826 They stormed the embassy 633 00:44:19,909 --> 00:44:22,662 and took dozens of American hostages. 634 00:44:22,746 --> 00:44:24,539 The students want the deposed Shah 635 00:44:24,622 --> 00:44:26,666 returned to Iran for trial. 636 00:44:26,750 --> 00:44:29,294 [crowd chanting] 637 00:44:30,128 --> 00:44:33,965 [Nahid] Nickzad understood that these fanatic people, 638 00:44:34,007 --> 00:44:36,301 they are not gonna give up. 639 00:44:41,097 --> 00:44:43,975 And actually, he was arrested. 640 00:44:46,770 --> 00:44:48,772 [Sara] You said it was one of the first 641 00:44:48,813 --> 00:44:50,815 anti-revolution demonstrations. 642 00:44:50,857 --> 00:44:52,692 [Nicky] I was in a demonstration, 643 00:44:52,776 --> 00:44:55,653 but I escaped through the alleys, 644 00:44:55,737 --> 00:44:58,406 but the alley was blocked. 645 00:45:00,950 --> 00:45:03,119 There was a door behind me, 646 00:45:03,203 --> 00:45:05,372 but the door was closed. 647 00:45:05,455 --> 00:45:08,458 So they got me with the bayonet 648 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:10,960 just in front of my chest. 649 00:45:12,295 --> 00:45:14,506 So they start beating me. 650 00:45:14,589 --> 00:45:17,384 They took me to glass prison. 651 00:45:17,467 --> 00:45:22,055 Actually, we were convicted of 100 lashes, all of us. 652 00:45:22,138 --> 00:45:23,473 Like 170 people 653 00:45:23,515 --> 00:45:25,475 in a room like this. 654 00:45:25,517 --> 00:45:29,020 We couldn't even sleep, just stand up 655 00:45:29,396 --> 00:45:31,314 until the next morning. 656 00:45:32,023 --> 00:45:35,485 Then they took us to the courtyard. 657 00:45:38,113 --> 00:45:39,656 [Sara] Did you know him already? 658 00:45:39,698 --> 00:45:41,324 [Nicky] Yeah, of course. 659 00:45:42,242 --> 00:45:43,827 Khomeini picked him up 660 00:45:43,868 --> 00:45:47,414 as the Chief Justice of the revolution at that time. 661 00:45:47,497 --> 00:45:50,709 So he would go to west of Iran 662 00:45:50,792 --> 00:45:53,837 to the Kurdish area in the morning, 663 00:45:53,878 --> 00:45:57,215 execute like 20, 25 people. 664 00:45:57,298 --> 00:45:58,383 [gunfire] 665 00:45:58,425 --> 00:46:01,886 The next morning, go to the center of Iran, 666 00:46:01,928 --> 00:46:03,263 hang other people. 667 00:46:03,346 --> 00:46:07,308 That's why he was famous for being "Hanging Judge." 668 00:46:08,018 --> 00:46:10,145 [reporter] Khalkhali was so proud of his achievements 669 00:46:10,228 --> 00:46:12,814 that he had this film made of himself in action. 670 00:46:12,897 --> 00:46:14,107 The prisoners seen here 671 00:46:14,190 --> 00:46:16,067 have already been condemned to death. 672 00:46:16,151 --> 00:46:18,278 Their hair and mustaches are partly shaven 673 00:46:18,361 --> 00:46:21,156 to give them a humiliating and grotesque appearance. 674 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,241 [speaking Farsi] 675 00:46:29,247 --> 00:46:31,416 [Nicky in English] I thought that I won't be alive 676 00:46:31,499 --> 00:46:33,251 after 100 lashes, 677 00:46:33,918 --> 00:46:36,171 but when he left, they were tired, 678 00:46:36,254 --> 00:46:39,257 they couldn't beat up all these 170 people, 679 00:46:39,341 --> 00:46:42,427 so at the end, they said, "Sign a paper 680 00:46:42,469 --> 00:46:46,514 that you're not going to participate in any demonstration 681 00:46:46,598 --> 00:46:48,892 against the Islamic Republic. 682 00:46:49,434 --> 00:46:54,439 And if you do, execution right away, anyplace." 683 00:46:55,231 --> 00:46:58,109 It's a kind of similar letter 684 00:46:58,151 --> 00:47:02,113 that I signed with the previous regime. 685 00:47:02,155 --> 00:47:06,076 So they cut my hair from this way and this way, 686 00:47:06,117 --> 00:47:09,329 and they let... they let me go to the streets. 687 00:47:09,788 --> 00:47:11,915 [Sara] It was like a way to humiliate you. 688 00:47:11,956 --> 00:47:13,541 [Nicky] Exactly. 689 00:47:14,501 --> 00:47:17,504 And after that, did you join any other protests? 690 00:47:17,587 --> 00:47:19,214 Yeah, of course. 691 00:47:19,297 --> 00:47:21,966 Oh, so you did? After... after this, 692 00:47:22,008 --> 00:47:24,219 -you still went out? -Yeah, of course. 693 00:47:25,345 --> 00:47:29,140 That was not the revolution that we wanted. 694 00:47:30,475 --> 00:47:33,269 The justice that we fought for 695 00:47:33,353 --> 00:47:34,813 is not happening here. 696 00:47:34,896 --> 00:47:38,358 This was much worse than what we had. 697 00:47:48,034 --> 00:47:49,786 [Sara] When was the first time you heard 698 00:47:49,828 --> 00:47:52,414 that the Museum of Contemporary Art 699 00:47:52,497 --> 00:47:54,416 wanted to show his work? 700 00:47:54,708 --> 00:47:56,334 He called me, 701 00:47:56,376 --> 00:47:58,169 and he said, 702 00:47:58,253 --> 00:48:00,338 uh, "This is gonna happen." 703 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:04,926 And none of his work was pro-revolution. 704 00:48:05,010 --> 00:48:07,220 It was all anti-revolution. 705 00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:09,931 [Nicky in Farsi] 706 00:48:41,046 --> 00:48:44,466 [in English] Remember, we fought for democracy. 707 00:48:45,175 --> 00:48:47,218 My position at that time was 708 00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:49,637 we had the right to criticize 709 00:48:49,721 --> 00:48:52,140 the behavior of the government. 710 00:48:52,223 --> 00:48:56,102 I didn't have a, um, gun in my hand. 711 00:48:56,478 --> 00:48:59,189 [tense music playing] 712 00:49:03,526 --> 00:49:06,029 [Sara] You seem to be 713 00:49:06,071 --> 00:49:09,074 the only person that we know 714 00:49:09,115 --> 00:49:12,327 that was at the exhibition in 1980 715 00:49:12,410 --> 00:49:15,372 at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. 716 00:49:15,413 --> 00:49:16,831 That's right. 717 00:49:16,873 --> 00:49:19,459 [Sara] Can you tell us a little bit about that? 718 00:49:19,542 --> 00:49:23,171 I went to the museum and I saw Nicky's work. 719 00:49:23,254 --> 00:49:26,758 A lot of works. You know, I remember, it was huge. 720 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,760 There were two or three rooms, 721 00:49:28,843 --> 00:49:31,471 and they were covered with paintings. 722 00:49:32,013 --> 00:49:36,059 It was the image of Khomeini. 723 00:49:37,060 --> 00:49:40,772 Khomeini was usually portrayed as a saint, 724 00:49:40,855 --> 00:49:44,693 and in these paintings, he was a man, 725 00:49:44,776 --> 00:49:46,653 and an angry man. 726 00:49:48,363 --> 00:49:52,534 Everything else was blood and fury. 727 00:49:54,411 --> 00:49:57,247 [Nicky] The opening was Tuesday. 728 00:49:57,288 --> 00:49:59,124 So I went out, got the paper, 729 00:49:59,207 --> 00:50:02,210 and I read it, and I read it, and I read it, 730 00:50:02,293 --> 00:50:05,338 and I didn't believe this is happening. 731 00:50:05,422 --> 00:50:06,464 It was saying 732 00:50:06,548 --> 00:50:10,176 how, from the garbages of United States, 733 00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:11,970 I came back to Iran 734 00:50:12,053 --> 00:50:16,016 and I stabbed the revolution from the back. 735 00:50:26,568 --> 00:50:28,194 They also printed 736 00:50:28,278 --> 00:50:31,740 one of the images of the painting. 737 00:50:32,032 --> 00:50:34,325 On the right side of the painting, 738 00:50:34,367 --> 00:50:36,995 there are two groups fighting, 739 00:50:37,078 --> 00:50:39,205 the left and the right. 740 00:50:39,831 --> 00:50:42,334 Then there's a graveyard 741 00:50:42,417 --> 00:50:44,836 of a Kurdish guy 742 00:50:44,878 --> 00:50:47,255 that has been executed, 743 00:50:47,547 --> 00:50:49,841 and Khomeini 744 00:50:49,883 --> 00:50:52,260 and Hanging Judge Khalkhali 745 00:50:52,344 --> 00:50:55,055 is coming towards the viewer. 746 00:50:55,138 --> 00:50:58,058 Any blood that is coming down 747 00:50:58,141 --> 00:51:02,187 is coming from the path of Khomeini and Khalkhali. 748 00:51:02,228 --> 00:51:06,649 So it was really a harsh criticism. 749 00:51:18,870 --> 00:51:20,246 [speaking Farsi] 750 00:51:20,330 --> 00:51:21,706 [Nicky in English] Friday prayer, 751 00:51:21,790 --> 00:51:26,044 bunch of people attacked the museum to get the painting. 752 00:51:26,127 --> 00:51:30,507 [in Farsi] 753 00:51:30,548 --> 00:51:31,883 [crowd chanting] 754 00:51:31,966 --> 00:51:36,388 [in English] Saturday, a friend of mine called me and said, 755 00:51:36,429 --> 00:51:39,557 "Get out of the country as fast as you can." 756 00:51:39,933 --> 00:51:42,477 [Sara] What would happen if he was arrested at that time? 757 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,145 [Nahid] They would have killed him. 758 00:51:44,229 --> 00:51:45,563 [air raid siren blaring] 759 00:51:45,605 --> 00:51:47,482 -[artillery whistling] -[bomb exploding] 760 00:51:47,565 --> 00:51:51,194 [Nicky] I was out from the airport nine o'clock. 761 00:51:51,236 --> 00:51:54,739 Twelve o'clock, Saddam Hussein attacked same airport. 762 00:51:55,115 --> 00:51:58,576 [reporter] In one of the first acts of war on September 22nd, 763 00:51:58,618 --> 00:52:01,037 Iraqi planes attacked Mehrabad Airport 764 00:52:01,079 --> 00:52:02,622 outside Tehran, 765 00:52:02,706 --> 00:52:06,126 an apparent effort to knock out Iran's air force on the ground. 766 00:52:07,293 --> 00:52:11,006 The crisis brought with it a new surge of patriotism. 767 00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,301 [Nicky] The war established the Islamic Republic 768 00:52:15,385 --> 00:52:18,430 because they were able to unite everybody 769 00:52:18,513 --> 00:52:23,768 and kill whoever was against the regime. 770 00:52:23,852 --> 00:52:26,271 [Nahid] He was extremely lucky 771 00:52:26,354 --> 00:52:28,273 to have got out of Tehran 772 00:52:28,356 --> 00:52:31,359 exactly at the right moment. 773 00:52:32,068 --> 00:52:35,488 He directly came to Miami. 774 00:52:35,572 --> 00:52:37,574 [waves lapping] 775 00:52:37,615 --> 00:52:40,243 [gulls calling] 776 00:52:45,790 --> 00:52:49,169 [Nicky] When I finally got to America, 777 00:52:49,252 --> 00:52:52,922 it was just wasting time, nothing. 778 00:52:54,591 --> 00:52:57,302 I couldn't work. I couldn't... 779 00:52:57,344 --> 00:52:59,346 I couldn't do anything. 780 00:53:05,852 --> 00:53:07,979 And I couldn't go back either. 781 00:53:09,773 --> 00:53:11,608 So it was a rough time. 782 00:53:14,986 --> 00:53:18,823 [Nahid] He came to his senses 783 00:53:18,865 --> 00:53:21,242 that, "My family is worth it, 784 00:53:21,326 --> 00:53:23,828 and I need to go to my family." 785 00:53:23,870 --> 00:53:25,413 Maybe. I don't know. 786 00:53:25,497 --> 00:53:28,667 [Sara] But then when he got to his family, he couldn't get rid 787 00:53:28,750 --> 00:53:31,002 -of all the anger. -No, he couldn't. 788 00:53:31,044 --> 00:53:33,004 He always had the anger. 789 00:53:33,046 --> 00:53:36,341 He always was unsatisfied. 790 00:53:36,966 --> 00:53:39,177 He had a revolution in himself. 791 00:53:39,260 --> 00:53:41,429 [soft music playing] 792 00:53:49,813 --> 00:53:51,606 -Oh, wow. -Wow. 793 00:53:51,898 --> 00:53:53,358 [Nicky] I came back from Tehran. 794 00:53:53,441 --> 00:53:56,820 -Yeah. -So I started this series. 795 00:53:57,112 --> 00:54:00,407 I was working every day in Miami. 796 00:54:03,368 --> 00:54:04,828 [Helena] Wow. 797 00:54:05,954 --> 00:54:08,623 -Is that Sara? -That's Sara. 798 00:54:08,707 --> 00:54:12,293 I want to hear what brought all of this 799 00:54:12,377 --> 00:54:14,504 out of you in one year. 800 00:54:14,879 --> 00:54:16,715 I was so angry. 801 00:54:17,424 --> 00:54:19,259 I was so disappointed 802 00:54:19,342 --> 00:54:21,803 that there was nothing else I can do. 803 00:54:21,886 --> 00:54:24,389 Just do the painting. 804 00:54:24,472 --> 00:54:26,975 [Helena] Sara, what do you remember from Miami? 805 00:54:27,058 --> 00:54:28,309 [Sara] So much of my memory 806 00:54:28,393 --> 00:54:30,311 comes from his paintings, actually. 807 00:54:30,395 --> 00:54:32,147 It was a tough time. 808 00:54:32,230 --> 00:54:33,857 He hated Miami. 809 00:54:33,898 --> 00:54:37,193 He hated being there. He hated the whole vibe. 810 00:54:37,235 --> 00:54:40,405 In Iran, hundred... hundreds of people 811 00:54:40,447 --> 00:54:43,241 I would meet every day. 812 00:54:43,283 --> 00:54:45,827 Planning, going to the demonstration, 813 00:54:45,869 --> 00:54:48,621 organizing, making posters. 814 00:54:49,748 --> 00:54:52,751 Then you come to Miami, it's dead. 815 00:54:53,209 --> 00:54:56,588 It was such... such a shock. 816 00:54:57,255 --> 00:54:59,841 I... I was losing my mind. 817 00:54:59,924 --> 00:55:02,260 [soft music playing] 818 00:55:02,761 --> 00:55:05,013 [Sara] My mother really liked it. 819 00:55:06,431 --> 00:55:08,600 [birds chirping] 820 00:55:20,403 --> 00:55:24,366 But he convinced her to go back to New York. 821 00:55:24,991 --> 00:55:28,370 [dramatic piano music playing] 822 00:55:36,586 --> 00:55:39,381 ♪ Sometimes happiness is sad ♪ 823 00:55:39,923 --> 00:55:41,841 ♪ When I looked into your eyes ♪ 824 00:55:41,925 --> 00:55:44,803 ♪ I know you never meant it bad ♪ 825 00:55:44,886 --> 00:55:45,970 What is it? 826 00:55:46,054 --> 00:55:47,639 ♪ It was all just fun ♪ 827 00:55:47,681 --> 00:55:51,601 ♪ You know this can't go on forever ♪ 828 00:55:51,935 --> 00:55:53,645 ♪ Not like this ♪ 829 00:55:53,687 --> 00:55:57,148 ♪ I'm too tired, I'm too sober ♪ 830 00:55:57,232 --> 00:55:58,817 ♪ For this shit ♪ 831 00:55:58,858 --> 00:56:02,404 ♪ I don't want you to be the one, oh yeah... ♪ 832 00:56:02,487 --> 00:56:04,489 You have to do an Instagram post. 833 00:56:04,531 --> 00:56:06,324 -[Nicky] We do it. -Every two weeks, 834 00:56:06,408 --> 00:56:07,659 post what you're working on. 835 00:56:07,742 --> 00:56:09,327 -[Nicky laughs] -Like this, 836 00:56:09,411 --> 00:56:10,704 this painting is gonna... 837 00:56:10,787 --> 00:56:12,497 People are gonna be interested in that. 838 00:56:12,580 --> 00:56:13,790 I can't put that on... 839 00:56:13,832 --> 00:56:16,084 [Sara] Why can't you put that on Instagram? 840 00:56:16,459 --> 00:56:18,545 [Nika] Weird, prostituting woman. 841 00:56:18,628 --> 00:56:20,714 -[Nicky] Okay. -And I think 842 00:56:20,797 --> 00:56:23,842 it's because the men have been ruling the women in Iran 843 00:56:24,217 --> 00:56:25,427 to wear chadors, 844 00:56:25,510 --> 00:56:28,304 and now the woman is taking over this man. 845 00:56:28,346 --> 00:56:30,557 She's wearing like all this stuff to scare him, 846 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,976 and then he's... she's gonna whip him. 847 00:56:33,518 --> 00:56:35,270 Beautiful. That was, uh, 848 00:56:35,353 --> 00:56:37,188 that's the idea. [chuckles] 849 00:56:42,277 --> 00:56:45,155 [filmmaker in Farsi] 850 00:56:50,201 --> 00:56:51,286 [Nicky] 851 00:56:51,369 --> 00:56:53,288 [gate creaking] 852 00:56:53,371 --> 00:56:55,540 [filmmaker] 853 00:56:58,209 --> 00:57:01,046 [dramatic electronic music playing] 854 00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,131 [Sara] 855 00:57:16,353 --> 00:57:18,897 [Mahmoud] 856 00:57:35,038 --> 00:57:38,833 [ominous music playing] 857 00:57:38,917 --> 00:57:40,794 [music fades] 858 00:57:43,922 --> 00:57:46,758 [Sara in English] Did you have any, um, 859 00:57:47,258 --> 00:57:49,052 regret in advance of the show? 860 00:57:49,094 --> 00:57:52,097 Did you think maybe it's not a good idea? 861 00:57:52,430 --> 00:57:55,809 I did... I told the head of that museum 862 00:57:55,892 --> 00:57:59,688 that, "Listen, I'm not looking for any problem." 863 00:58:01,773 --> 00:58:04,359 [Sara] I looked up the museum director. 864 00:58:04,818 --> 00:58:08,613 In this 1979 New York Times article, 865 00:58:08,655 --> 00:58:11,116 Masud Shafie Monfared is mentioned 866 00:58:11,199 --> 00:58:12,867 as the head of the museum. 867 00:58:12,951 --> 00:58:14,494 [Nicky] Right. 868 00:58:15,787 --> 00:58:19,290 I'd love to find that guy 869 00:58:19,582 --> 00:58:23,336 and talk to him about, like, what he saw, 870 00:58:23,420 --> 00:58:25,505 why he thought it was a good idea 871 00:58:25,588 --> 00:58:29,050 to, um, curate his work. 872 00:58:30,719 --> 00:58:33,138 [filmmaker in Farsi] 873 00:58:37,934 --> 00:58:41,146 [Sara in English] Masud D. Monfared. 874 00:58:41,771 --> 00:58:43,314 I have a phone number. 875 00:58:44,274 --> 00:58:46,568 -[phone ringing] -[Masud] Hello? 876 00:58:46,651 --> 00:58:49,696 Is this Mr. Monfared? 877 00:58:50,030 --> 00:58:52,657 -[Masud] Yes, speaking. Yes. -Salam. 878 00:58:52,741 --> 00:58:54,701 So my question for you is, 879 00:58:54,784 --> 00:58:57,912 were you the former curator 880 00:58:57,996 --> 00:59:01,666 at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art? 881 00:59:02,542 --> 00:59:04,586 [Masud] Yes, yes, I was. 882 00:59:04,669 --> 00:59:07,297 -You-- -I was the director, yes. 883 00:59:07,339 --> 00:59:08,882 You're kidding me. 884 00:59:09,341 --> 00:59:10,967 -No. -No. [laughs] 885 00:59:11,009 --> 00:59:13,470 This is crazy because I've been, um, 886 00:59:13,511 --> 00:59:15,555 kind of searching for you. 887 00:59:15,638 --> 00:59:16,765 How are you? 888 00:59:16,848 --> 00:59:19,225 -What's up? -What's up? 889 00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,520 [Sara] He lives in Sacramento. 890 00:59:22,604 --> 00:59:25,065 He still goes back to Iran. 891 00:59:25,523 --> 00:59:28,193 [Nicky] 892 00:59:35,575 --> 00:59:36,701 What does he know, 893 00:59:36,785 --> 00:59:39,120 anything about this interview? 894 00:59:39,204 --> 00:59:40,413 [Sara] Very little. 895 00:59:40,497 --> 00:59:43,917 I haven't said anything about what happened. 896 00:59:48,588 --> 00:59:51,216 I've heard the story so many times in my life, 897 00:59:51,257 --> 00:59:53,843 and there's always so many different versions. 898 00:59:53,885 --> 00:59:56,054 -Uh-huh. -[Sara in Farsi] 899 00:59:58,973 --> 01:00:00,475 [in English] And this is an effort 900 01:00:00,558 --> 01:00:02,394 to pull those pieces together 901 01:00:02,477 --> 01:00:04,312 to see what happened. 902 01:00:04,396 --> 01:00:05,939 Yeah, I... I don't recall. 903 01:00:06,022 --> 01:00:08,441 You know, I have to think, go to back memories. 904 01:00:08,983 --> 01:00:11,569 And you don't remember the pieces, 905 01:00:11,653 --> 01:00:14,823 what may have happened to the pieces? 906 01:00:14,906 --> 01:00:17,951 I don't know. I don't remember anything. Yeah. 907 01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:24,416 Do you remember how you first came across Nickzad's artwork? 908 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,294 [Masud] He was a young man, and he was, uh... 909 01:00:28,795 --> 01:00:31,923 a little shy person, 910 01:00:31,965 --> 01:00:34,592 and, you know, he asked me, 911 01:00:34,676 --> 01:00:36,386 "Can I participate also?" 912 01:00:36,428 --> 01:00:37,887 I said, "Yeah, you can." 913 01:00:38,179 --> 01:00:41,683 [Till] If he tried to now get the work back, 914 01:00:41,766 --> 01:00:44,227 would he have a chance to get it back? 915 01:00:44,936 --> 01:00:47,272 I believe so. I believe... If it's his. 916 01:00:47,313 --> 01:00:50,608 I would just basically go to Iran to challenge them. 917 01:00:51,109 --> 01:00:54,779 "Well, you know, I did this at a time I was thinking like this. 918 01:00:54,821 --> 01:00:57,657 I think differently now," or whatever, you know? 919 01:00:57,741 --> 01:00:59,075 [Till] But part of the problem is 920 01:00:59,117 --> 01:01:01,870 he doesn't necessarily think differently. 921 01:01:05,206 --> 01:01:06,708 [knocking] 922 01:01:08,668 --> 01:01:10,128 Salam! 923 01:01:10,170 --> 01:01:11,963 [speaking Farsi] 924 01:01:12,047 --> 01:01:14,299 [Nicky in English] It's been like 42 years. 925 01:01:14,341 --> 01:01:15,550 Yes. 926 01:01:15,633 --> 01:01:18,720 I have an Islamic Republican newspaper. 927 01:01:19,095 --> 01:01:20,305 [Masud] Really? 928 01:01:21,473 --> 01:01:23,350 Oh, yeah, yeah. 929 01:01:23,850 --> 01:01:27,354 [Nicky] This is the painting that was in the show, 930 01:01:27,437 --> 01:01:29,647 because after this article, 931 01:01:29,689 --> 01:01:32,484 you took that painting out of the museum. 932 01:01:32,567 --> 01:01:33,610 I did? 933 01:01:33,651 --> 01:01:35,362 -You told me. -Okay, okay. 934 01:01:35,445 --> 01:01:37,655 -The story is... -[laughing] 935 01:01:37,697 --> 01:01:39,824 -It's your story. -Okay, okay. 936 01:01:39,908 --> 01:01:42,243 [Nicky] Because after Friday prayer, 937 01:01:42,327 --> 01:01:44,245 the mob attacked museum. 938 01:01:44,329 --> 01:01:46,247 So you said to me, 939 01:01:46,331 --> 01:01:50,627 uh, "Why don't you write an answer to this article?" 940 01:01:50,669 --> 01:01:52,671 -Mm-hmm. -I said I would do it, 941 01:01:52,712 --> 01:01:54,172 and I gave it to you. 942 01:01:54,255 --> 01:01:56,174 -Mm-hmm. -You said, 943 01:01:56,466 --> 01:01:59,010 "No. We don't do it because 944 01:01:59,094 --> 01:02:01,680 this would be an excuse for them 945 01:02:01,721 --> 01:02:03,348 to attack the museum." 946 01:02:03,431 --> 01:02:04,766 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 947 01:02:04,849 --> 01:02:07,727 [Nicky] Meantime, another friend of mine called me 948 01:02:07,811 --> 01:02:09,771 and said, "Get out of the country 949 01:02:09,854 --> 01:02:11,606 as soon as you can." 950 01:02:11,690 --> 01:02:12,857 -Really? -Really. 951 01:02:13,358 --> 01:02:15,860 So you changed your life because of this article? 952 01:02:15,902 --> 01:02:18,238 -Because of this article. -Wow. [laughs] 953 01:02:18,947 --> 01:02:22,659 So my question for 42 years was, 954 01:02:23,076 --> 01:02:26,037 do you remember what happened to this painting? 955 01:02:26,079 --> 01:02:28,832 Uh, I don't know. I have no idea. 956 01:02:29,207 --> 01:02:30,667 I don't recall, 957 01:02:30,709 --> 01:02:32,460 uh, any of these, actually. 958 01:02:32,544 --> 01:02:33,920 This is my first time. 959 01:02:34,212 --> 01:02:36,589 There were so many topics and subjects 960 01:02:36,673 --> 01:02:38,842 was going on at the same time. 961 01:02:39,759 --> 01:02:41,761 I-I don't remember your show. 962 01:02:43,805 --> 01:02:46,224 So what's wrong with this painting anyway? 963 01:02:46,599 --> 01:02:48,351 -[laughs] -[Nicky] You read the... 964 01:02:48,393 --> 01:02:51,187 Read the article and not the painting, yeah. 965 01:02:52,313 --> 01:02:55,442 Well, it was good to see you after 43 years. 966 01:02:59,487 --> 01:03:02,032 [gulls calling] 967 01:03:02,073 --> 01:03:04,492 [melancholic music playing] 968 01:03:04,576 --> 01:03:07,162 When he says he doesn't remember, 969 01:03:07,245 --> 01:03:10,040 -do you believe that? -I don't... I don't believe. 970 01:03:10,081 --> 01:03:11,416 It's... 971 01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:13,209 It's out of, uh... 972 01:03:13,626 --> 01:03:15,420 Beyond me to believe that 973 01:03:15,503 --> 01:03:18,048 because it's impossible. 974 01:03:18,673 --> 01:03:20,759 And the other thing that he said, 975 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,969 I asked him to have a show. 976 01:03:23,053 --> 01:03:23,887 Right. 977 01:03:23,928 --> 01:03:25,555 [Nicky] Never, ever. 978 01:03:26,848 --> 01:03:29,100 Never, ever I asked him. 979 01:03:29,434 --> 01:03:30,894 Let's just say, tomorrow, 980 01:03:30,935 --> 01:03:32,937 somebody from the Islamic Republic of Iran 981 01:03:33,021 --> 01:03:34,272 watched the film, 982 01:03:34,314 --> 01:03:36,483 he's gotta come across looking good. 983 01:03:36,566 --> 01:03:37,734 [Nicky] I think... 984 01:03:37,776 --> 01:03:39,277 -his concern... -He's gotta... 985 01:03:39,361 --> 01:03:41,613 His concern is that. 986 01:03:45,784 --> 01:03:48,370 [indistinct shouting] 987 01:03:48,453 --> 01:03:51,122 [solemn music playing] 988 01:03:53,917 --> 01:03:57,629 [woman in Farsi] 989 01:03:57,712 --> 01:04:00,548 [reporter] After eight years of relative moderation 990 01:04:00,632 --> 01:04:02,300 under Hassan Rouhani, 991 01:04:02,384 --> 01:04:06,596 his successor is expected to take a sharp conservative turn. 992 01:04:08,556 --> 01:04:10,600 [reporter 2] Two internationally acclaimed 993 01:04:10,642 --> 01:04:11,976 Iranian film directors 994 01:04:12,060 --> 01:04:13,812 have been detained by authorities 995 01:04:13,853 --> 01:04:15,480 for criticizing the government 996 01:04:15,522 --> 01:04:17,357 over a violent crackdown. 997 01:04:17,982 --> 01:04:19,442 [Nicky in Farsi] 998 01:04:32,497 --> 01:04:33,873 [Nicky in English] 999 01:04:35,583 --> 01:04:37,252 [in Farsi] 1000 01:04:37,335 --> 01:04:39,045 [Sara] 1001 01:04:39,337 --> 01:04:40,588 [Nicky] 1002 01:04:52,017 --> 01:04:54,310 [in English] They might send messages. 1003 01:04:54,352 --> 01:04:55,562 Don't respond. 1004 01:04:55,645 --> 01:04:57,355 [Nicky coughs] Okay. 1005 01:04:57,439 --> 01:04:59,482 [in Farsi] 1006 01:04:59,858 --> 01:05:03,403 [filmmaker] 1007 01:05:29,387 --> 01:05:32,390 [Nicky in English] Well, I don't blame. It's dangerous. 1008 01:05:34,059 --> 01:05:36,686 I said it to you a long time ago. 1009 01:05:36,728 --> 01:05:38,980 I don't think anybody would do it. 1010 01:05:41,691 --> 01:05:43,443 [in Farsi] 1011 01:05:43,526 --> 01:05:48,114 [in English] Bahmanpour has said, "Stay back. 1012 01:05:48,198 --> 01:05:49,949 It's not a good time. 1013 01:05:50,033 --> 01:05:53,953 Stay for like... stay away for three, four months. 1014 01:05:54,037 --> 01:05:56,998 Let's see what's happened to this new regime." 1015 01:05:57,082 --> 01:05:59,125 So Bahmanpour is still there? 1016 01:05:59,209 --> 01:06:01,419 [Nicky] He's still there, but it's... 1017 01:06:01,461 --> 01:06:05,215 They are... they are waiting to see 1018 01:06:05,256 --> 01:06:08,218 what the new regime is going to be. 1019 01:06:08,259 --> 01:06:10,011 They don't know whether it's going 1020 01:06:10,095 --> 01:06:13,098 to really cut down everything. 1021 01:06:13,139 --> 01:06:16,059 [solemn music playing] 1022 01:06:19,104 --> 01:06:20,605 [Sara] You always say, 1023 01:06:20,647 --> 01:06:23,024 "If I had a normal life, 1024 01:06:23,108 --> 01:06:24,693 things would be different." 1025 01:06:24,776 --> 01:06:28,571 What would a normal life have looked like for you? 1026 01:06:29,030 --> 01:06:31,783 I would stay in Iran. 1027 01:06:31,866 --> 01:06:33,868 I would have been a teacher, 1028 01:06:33,952 --> 01:06:36,996 continue as an artist, 1029 01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,166 get a wife, couple of childrens. 1030 01:06:40,792 --> 01:06:41,960 That's it. 1031 01:06:42,961 --> 01:06:47,465 And you think you would've been content with that kind of life? 1032 01:06:48,758 --> 01:06:49,926 What do you mean? 1033 01:06:49,968 --> 01:06:51,302 I guess I'm trying to figure out, 1034 01:06:51,386 --> 01:06:53,388 if you were to do it all over again, 1035 01:06:53,471 --> 01:06:55,390 would you do it exactly the same way? 1036 01:06:55,473 --> 01:06:56,558 No. 1037 01:06:58,727 --> 01:07:01,354 [Sara] That museum exhibition 1038 01:07:01,438 --> 01:07:05,442 kind of changed the trajectory of our lives. 1039 01:07:05,900 --> 01:07:08,319 If the revolution hadn't happened... 1040 01:07:08,403 --> 01:07:10,905 [Nahid] Yes. We could have been... 1041 01:07:11,322 --> 01:07:13,783 uh, very happy family. 1042 01:07:14,534 --> 01:07:15,660 But... 1043 01:07:15,952 --> 01:07:20,623 Nickzad was always a revolutionary inside, 1044 01:07:20,665 --> 01:07:22,375 and he couldn't... 1045 01:07:22,459 --> 01:07:26,671 Nothing in this world could have make him calm. 1046 01:07:26,713 --> 01:07:29,674 [melancholic music playing] 1047 01:07:33,345 --> 01:07:35,847 After we came back to New York, 1048 01:07:35,889 --> 01:07:39,517 we had absolutely no money. 1049 01:07:41,519 --> 01:07:45,523 My parents had moved to the United States. 1050 01:07:46,191 --> 01:07:48,651 We stayed in my parents' house. 1051 01:07:48,693 --> 01:07:52,030 My father had a clothing store, 1052 01:07:52,113 --> 01:07:54,157 so I went to work there. 1053 01:07:54,199 --> 01:07:56,576 We rented a small apartment. 1054 01:07:58,703 --> 01:08:01,039 The bedroom was dedicated 1055 01:08:01,081 --> 01:08:03,541 as a studio for both of us. 1056 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,293 [Sara] Though I had a room. 1057 01:08:05,377 --> 01:08:07,962 [Nahid] It wasn't a room. It was some kind of 1058 01:08:08,046 --> 01:08:09,714 small dining area. 1059 01:08:09,756 --> 01:08:13,968 You slept there and we slept in the living room. Yes. 1060 01:08:14,511 --> 01:08:17,096 -I remember that apartment. -[Nahid] Yeah. 1061 01:08:18,598 --> 01:08:22,143 When Nickzad was involved with his painting, 1062 01:08:22,227 --> 01:08:24,395 he was in heaven. 1063 01:08:25,563 --> 01:08:27,857 But when he was not, 1064 01:08:27,899 --> 01:08:30,402 he was not a calm person. 1065 01:08:33,154 --> 01:08:35,031 [Sara] Why were you so angry? 1066 01:08:35,073 --> 01:08:36,573 [Nicky] I didn't want to be here. 1067 01:08:36,658 --> 01:08:40,161 I couldn't do the job that I want to do here 1068 01:08:40,245 --> 01:08:41,705 at the beginning. 1069 01:08:41,746 --> 01:08:44,832 It was a lot of, um, you know, 1070 01:08:44,916 --> 01:08:47,252 a lot of rejection. 1071 01:08:48,962 --> 01:08:51,756 [Nahid] Iranian artists were doomed 1072 01:08:51,798 --> 01:08:53,425 after the revolution. 1073 01:08:53,883 --> 01:08:56,761 After capturing the hostages, 1074 01:08:56,803 --> 01:08:59,723 nobody respected us anymore. 1075 01:09:00,180 --> 01:09:04,185 He has this much of rejection letters 1076 01:09:04,269 --> 01:09:06,563 from galleries. 1077 01:09:12,068 --> 01:09:14,529 Nobody would buy our art. 1078 01:09:16,031 --> 01:09:18,783 So one of us should have make money. 1079 01:09:19,451 --> 01:09:23,830 And when we created the textile design studio, 1080 01:09:24,205 --> 01:09:26,916 he also worked at that studio, 1081 01:09:26,957 --> 01:09:29,210 but he was always complaining 1082 01:09:29,294 --> 01:09:32,756 that, "You're taking my time from my painting 1083 01:09:32,796 --> 01:09:35,175 and doing nonsense." 1084 01:09:35,258 --> 01:09:37,969 I said, "This nonsense, at least, 1085 01:09:38,053 --> 01:09:39,845 it's providing us." 1086 01:09:41,555 --> 01:09:43,767 But he didn't want to do that. 1087 01:09:44,475 --> 01:09:46,478 [Till] Sara often asked him, 1088 01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:51,232 "Why is it that everybody speaks so highly of Nicky, 1089 01:09:51,316 --> 01:09:53,318 and Nicky is this and Nicky is that, 1090 01:09:53,359 --> 01:09:54,611 and such a kind man," 1091 01:09:54,652 --> 01:09:57,113 but that wasn't necessarily her experience? 1092 01:09:57,155 --> 01:09:58,448 Uh-huh. Okay. 1093 01:09:58,490 --> 01:10:02,077 [Sara] Right, like every time I... "Nicky!" 1094 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:03,870 Sara Jan, 1095 01:10:03,953 --> 01:10:05,830 that hurts me 1096 01:10:06,164 --> 01:10:09,626 because, actually, nobody knows him. 1097 01:10:11,211 --> 01:10:12,712 I don't want to put him down. 1098 01:10:12,796 --> 01:10:14,339 -You're not putting him down. -Okay. 1099 01:10:14,381 --> 01:10:16,257 Everybody is complicated. 1100 01:10:16,341 --> 01:10:18,551 People are nuanced, 1101 01:10:18,635 --> 01:10:20,595 and it's a little bit of an underst-- 1102 01:10:20,679 --> 01:10:24,182 What we're trying to do is understand, like, what happened. 1103 01:10:24,224 --> 01:10:27,310 [somber music playing] 1104 01:10:46,871 --> 01:10:48,373 [sniffling softly] 1105 01:10:57,799 --> 01:10:58,883 This is you. 1106 01:10:58,925 --> 01:11:00,093 When was this taken? 1107 01:11:00,176 --> 01:11:02,762 [Nicky] How old are you, 11, 10? 1108 01:11:02,846 --> 01:11:03,722 [Sara] Yeah. 1109 01:11:03,805 --> 01:11:05,932 One of the one times we went camping 1110 01:11:06,016 --> 01:11:07,434 -together. -[Nicky] Yes. 1111 01:11:08,810 --> 01:11:10,061 This is you. 1112 01:11:10,103 --> 01:11:11,146 [Sara] It's us. 1113 01:11:11,229 --> 01:11:13,314 [Nicky] Okay, it's us. 1114 01:11:15,900 --> 01:11:18,236 [Sara] So when you see, like, pictures of Nahid, 1115 01:11:18,278 --> 01:11:19,654 do you feel like... 1116 01:11:19,738 --> 01:11:24,034 sadness that it didn't work between you guys? 1117 01:11:24,075 --> 01:11:25,368 Or... 1118 01:11:25,410 --> 01:11:28,079 what do you... like, what do you feel? 1119 01:11:28,163 --> 01:11:31,249 Of course that's... that's the feeling. 1120 01:11:31,332 --> 01:11:33,501 This is the picture, um, that... 1121 01:11:33,585 --> 01:11:35,795 No, this is not the one. 1122 01:11:38,173 --> 01:11:40,050 -Huh? 'Cause... -I said... 1123 01:11:40,091 --> 01:11:41,593 I said, "Of course." 1124 01:11:41,676 --> 01:11:42,761 [Sara] Okay. 1125 01:11:44,679 --> 01:11:47,307 -Nahid. -I'm really trying to get 1126 01:11:47,390 --> 01:11:49,184 something out of you, 1127 01:11:49,267 --> 01:11:51,353 but you really... you hold it together 1128 01:11:51,436 --> 01:11:53,480 when it comes to the marriage. 1129 01:11:53,563 --> 01:11:55,398 What do you want me to tell? 1130 01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:57,317 I don't know, like, I... I... 1131 01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:59,944 I'm trying to figure out your feelings. 1132 01:12:02,614 --> 01:12:03,948 [laughing] 1133 01:12:07,369 --> 01:12:09,662 [Nicky] Twenty years after, 1134 01:12:09,746 --> 01:12:13,208 you can't have the same feeling that you had before. 1135 01:12:13,291 --> 01:12:15,001 What... what do you mean? 1136 01:12:15,543 --> 01:12:18,505 [Nicky] If... if, for example, 1137 01:12:18,588 --> 01:12:22,133 you were in love at the beginning, when you... 1138 01:12:23,134 --> 01:12:25,637 [melancholic music playing] 1139 01:12:30,392 --> 01:12:31,810 [sniffles] 1140 01:12:31,851 --> 01:12:33,061 [softly] Okay. 1141 01:12:35,730 --> 01:12:38,566 I still have this, the teddy bear. 1142 01:12:38,983 --> 01:12:42,153 That's... that is my favorite teddy bear. 1143 01:12:44,781 --> 01:12:48,493 That's you. Show it to... to Till. 1144 01:12:56,918 --> 01:12:59,504 -Okay. -Okay. [laughs] 1145 01:13:01,381 --> 01:13:02,674 [sniffles] 1146 01:13:06,344 --> 01:13:08,722 [in Farsi] 1147 01:13:15,437 --> 01:13:18,440 -Is this enough for you? -Yeah, that's... [laughs] 1148 01:13:24,195 --> 01:13:25,572 [Sara sniffles] 1149 01:13:55,268 --> 01:13:57,228 [Sara in Farsi] 1150 01:14:28,593 --> 01:14:30,470 [in English] He had to do what he had to do 1151 01:14:30,553 --> 01:14:32,722 to get where he is today. 1152 01:14:33,598 --> 01:14:36,643 I don't blame him, I don't blame my mother. 1153 01:14:36,726 --> 01:14:38,144 They were learning. 1154 01:14:38,228 --> 01:14:41,314 They were adjusting to life, 1155 01:14:41,398 --> 01:14:43,525 to disappointments. 1156 01:14:45,276 --> 01:14:47,278 [in Farsi] 1157 01:15:03,962 --> 01:15:05,088 [in English] Right? 1158 01:15:07,507 --> 01:15:09,009 [in Farsi] 1159 01:15:25,650 --> 01:15:26,860 [in English] Right? 1160 01:15:26,943 --> 01:15:29,571 [in Farsi] 1161 01:15:53,636 --> 01:15:56,139 [in English] The ten steps that he was able to take, 1162 01:15:56,181 --> 01:15:57,474 she wasn't able to take it 1163 01:15:57,515 --> 01:15:59,517 because she was trying to figure things out. 1164 01:15:59,559 --> 01:16:02,354 She was trying to figure out life. 1165 01:16:05,315 --> 01:16:09,027 [Nahid in Farsi] 1166 01:16:54,322 --> 01:16:55,782 [Sara in English] What advice would you give 1167 01:16:55,865 --> 01:16:57,742 to her younger self? 1168 01:16:58,702 --> 01:17:00,453 No marriage. [laughs] 1169 01:17:00,537 --> 01:17:01,705 Don't get married. 1170 01:17:01,746 --> 01:17:03,248 So her parents were right? 1171 01:17:03,289 --> 01:17:05,000 I think they were right. 1172 01:17:06,126 --> 01:17:08,044 I think they were right. 1173 01:17:08,086 --> 01:17:09,379 If it wasn't for me, 1174 01:17:09,421 --> 01:17:11,756 she would probably had a better life. 1175 01:17:15,927 --> 01:17:19,264 I changed a lot of life around myself, 1176 01:17:19,597 --> 01:17:23,435 and not all of them for better. 1177 01:17:23,935 --> 01:17:26,855 I made a lot of people unhappy. 1178 01:17:27,981 --> 01:17:31,943 Then, later on, I realized what I had done. 1179 01:17:36,156 --> 01:17:38,324 [Sara] And then you had guilt about it. 1180 01:17:38,408 --> 01:17:39,993 A lot of guilt. 1181 01:17:40,618 --> 01:17:42,662 [in Farsi] 1182 01:17:44,581 --> 01:17:46,041 [Sara in English] Okay. 1183 01:17:51,212 --> 01:17:54,966 [Nicky] The man in the jacket is my father. 1184 01:17:55,592 --> 01:17:58,303 He died about 20 years ago. 1185 01:17:58,970 --> 01:18:02,140 My mother's name is Zeshad. 1186 01:18:03,433 --> 01:18:04,726 Great woman. 1187 01:18:04,809 --> 01:18:06,811 She died... 1188 01:18:07,354 --> 01:18:09,981 15 years ago. I wasn't there. 1189 01:18:12,025 --> 01:18:15,570 I talked to her the night before she died, 1190 01:18:15,653 --> 01:18:17,655 and I told her I would come, 1191 01:18:17,739 --> 01:18:19,866 and she said, "Don't come. 1192 01:18:20,367 --> 01:18:22,410 We're not looking for trouble." 1193 01:18:22,786 --> 01:18:25,830 [soft, moody music playing] 1194 01:18:28,458 --> 01:18:32,003 This is Mezhad, my older sister. 1195 01:18:32,879 --> 01:18:36,758 With her husband driving from north to Tehran, 1196 01:18:36,841 --> 01:18:39,177 there was an accident and... 1197 01:18:43,223 --> 01:18:44,516 I'm sorry. 1198 01:18:45,183 --> 01:18:46,476 She's gone. 1199 01:18:49,145 --> 01:18:51,022 This is Behrus. 1200 01:18:56,653 --> 01:18:59,197 He was part of revolution. 1201 01:18:59,781 --> 01:19:01,700 They threw him out, 1202 01:19:01,741 --> 01:19:04,786 and he became addict... 1203 01:19:05,745 --> 01:19:09,040 and died a year ago in nursing home. 1204 01:19:11,209 --> 01:19:12,961 [inhales deeply] 1205 01:19:17,132 --> 01:19:18,842 This is Faroh. 1206 01:19:21,886 --> 01:19:23,388 [inhales deeply] 1207 01:19:27,350 --> 01:19:28,893 He was addict 1208 01:19:29,394 --> 01:19:30,937 to heroin 1209 01:19:31,312 --> 01:19:33,440 and committed suicide. 1210 01:19:39,529 --> 01:19:41,406 This is Saheed. 1211 01:19:46,578 --> 01:19:49,247 Saheed was in United States. 1212 01:19:49,664 --> 01:19:51,583 He become an architect. 1213 01:19:54,711 --> 01:19:58,840 He was living in the street for 25 years. 1214 01:20:01,176 --> 01:20:02,677 He died 1215 01:20:02,761 --> 01:20:05,805 couple of years ago, two years ago. 1216 01:20:06,389 --> 01:20:08,099 And this box... 1217 01:20:08,850 --> 01:20:10,185 his ashes. 1218 01:20:21,446 --> 01:20:23,448 This is Firooz. 1219 01:20:24,616 --> 01:20:27,619 He's living in Long Island, 1220 01:20:28,411 --> 01:20:31,873 and he teaches at the community college. 1221 01:20:34,209 --> 01:20:35,877 And that's me. 1222 01:20:57,023 --> 01:20:58,650 [video call ringing] 1223 01:20:58,733 --> 01:21:01,236 [Sara in Farsi] 1224 01:21:15,125 --> 01:21:16,251 Ooh. 1225 01:21:18,420 --> 01:21:19,504 Good. 1226 01:21:24,009 --> 01:21:29,347 [rapid vocalizations] 1227 01:21:33,935 --> 01:21:35,186 [Sara in English] Hey! 1228 01:21:35,228 --> 01:21:36,730 [Nicky] Hey, Sara Jan. 1229 01:21:36,813 --> 01:21:37,856 [Sara] So what's up? 1230 01:21:37,939 --> 01:21:40,859 [Nicky] Apparently they talk 1231 01:21:40,942 --> 01:21:42,402 right away yesterday. 1232 01:21:42,485 --> 01:21:43,695 Who talked? 1233 01:21:43,778 --> 01:21:45,697 [in Farsi] 1234 01:21:45,739 --> 01:21:46,865 [in English] Okay. 1235 01:21:46,906 --> 01:21:50,368 [in Farsi] 1236 01:21:56,750 --> 01:21:58,501 [in English] Okay, that's fantastic. 1237 01:21:58,543 --> 01:22:00,170 And how are you, my love? 1238 01:22:00,253 --> 01:22:01,588 How are you? 1239 01:22:01,671 --> 01:22:04,257 [in Farsi] 1240 01:22:04,341 --> 01:22:06,384 -[in English] We just... -[indistinct] 1241 01:22:06,426 --> 01:22:08,053 [laughing] 1242 01:22:08,094 --> 01:22:10,722 -Hey, [indistinct]. -Hi. 1243 01:22:10,805 --> 01:22:12,932 I heard about the paintings. 1244 01:22:13,266 --> 01:22:17,103 Yes. I never thought that we can make it that fast. 1245 01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:18,396 You ready? 1246 01:22:18,438 --> 01:22:20,648 [trills lips] I wish I could go! 1247 01:22:20,732 --> 01:22:21,816 [laughs] 1248 01:22:21,900 --> 01:22:23,610 [music ending] 1249 01:22:30,825 --> 01:22:34,412 [Mahmoud in Farsi] 1250 01:22:52,847 --> 01:22:55,475 [tense music playing] 1251 01:22:58,269 --> 01:23:00,689 [Sara in English] Good morning, Nickzad Jan. 1252 01:23:00,772 --> 01:23:02,148 Oh, shit. 1253 01:23:02,232 --> 01:23:04,693 -[Nicky in Farsi] -[English] Three notifications. 1254 01:23:05,318 --> 01:23:07,612 You have a bunch of notifications. 1255 01:23:09,698 --> 01:23:12,200 [indistinct chatter] 1256 01:23:13,326 --> 01:23:15,620 [in Farsi] 1257 01:23:26,965 --> 01:23:28,550 [Sara] Mahmoud... 1258 01:23:28,633 --> 01:23:30,719 [Nicky] 1259 01:24:00,248 --> 01:24:03,501 -[cell phone ringing] -[Sara] 1260 01:25:14,614 --> 01:25:17,158 [Nicky] 1261 01:25:24,791 --> 01:25:26,918 [Nicky] 1262 01:25:27,002 --> 01:25:30,547 [Mahmoud] 1263 01:25:41,766 --> 01:25:44,644 [in English] Okay, photos, photos, photos, photos. 1264 01:25:47,355 --> 01:25:49,315 -Self-portrait. -[Nicky] Ooh. 1265 01:25:49,399 --> 01:25:52,402 [gentle music playing] 1266 01:25:55,864 --> 01:25:58,283 Oh, he got a lot of pictures. 1267 01:25:59,576 --> 01:26:01,953 [Nicky] I don't remember any of these. 1268 01:26:02,037 --> 01:26:04,247 Maybe one or two. 1269 01:26:05,123 --> 01:26:07,709 A lot of images of the clerics... 1270 01:26:07,792 --> 01:26:10,295 -That are not in these. -...they're... they're not here. 1271 01:26:10,337 --> 01:26:13,590 They took out the images with the clerics. 1272 01:26:13,631 --> 01:26:14,466 I think so. 1273 01:26:14,507 --> 01:26:16,634 This is one, for example. 1274 01:26:16,968 --> 01:26:19,262 [Sara] Yeah, I mean, this is like with the people. 1275 01:26:19,304 --> 01:26:21,765 Right, but I... I had other... other ones 1276 01:26:21,806 --> 01:26:23,391 that was more critical. 1277 01:26:23,475 --> 01:26:26,311 So, I don't see them in here. 1278 01:26:30,315 --> 01:26:31,733 [camera shutter clicks] 1279 01:26:35,153 --> 01:26:37,655 [indistinct chatter] 1280 01:28:12,834 --> 01:28:14,919 [music fades] 1281 01:28:16,796 --> 01:28:19,549 [dramatic music playing] 1282 01:28:19,591 --> 01:28:21,801 [chanting] 1283 01:28:25,555 --> 01:28:28,016 [reporter] Protests across Iran have been going on now 1284 01:28:28,099 --> 01:28:29,267 for more than a month, 1285 01:28:29,309 --> 01:28:30,935 women taking off their headscarves 1286 01:28:30,977 --> 01:28:33,938 and cutting their hair in a sign of protest. 1287 01:28:34,022 --> 01:28:36,399 [shouting] 1288 01:28:38,276 --> 01:28:40,987 [Nicky] 1289 01:28:41,946 --> 01:28:43,990 [in Farsi] 1290 01:28:55,835 --> 01:28:57,712 [chanting] 1291 01:29:05,970 --> 01:29:09,349 [in English] They are facing light, they are facing freedom, 1292 01:29:09,432 --> 01:29:12,060 for... for freedom in Iran. 1293 01:29:12,352 --> 01:29:13,561 [Luca] It's very nice. 1294 01:29:13,645 --> 01:29:15,146 -[Nahid laughs] -You made this? 1295 01:29:15,230 --> 01:29:17,148 -Yes. -I didn't know that. 1296 01:29:17,232 --> 01:29:20,110 [mellow acoustic guitar music playing] 1297 01:29:20,902 --> 01:29:22,570 Hey, Khamenei, 1298 01:29:23,405 --> 01:29:25,990 we have a song for you and your mullahs. 1299 01:29:26,074 --> 01:29:29,160 ♪ You've kept this country a prison for 40 years ♪ 1300 01:29:29,244 --> 01:29:32,163 ♪ We're sick and tired of this terror and the cost ♪ 1301 01:29:32,247 --> 01:29:35,834 ♪ Too many women and children all being killed ♪ 1302 01:29:35,917 --> 01:29:38,920 ♪ Do you really think you'll get away with this? ♪ 1303 01:29:39,004 --> 01:29:41,131 [strumming long chords] 1304 01:29:44,300 --> 01:29:47,012 [Nicky] I made a poster last night. 1305 01:29:47,679 --> 01:29:50,473 If the museum sees that poster, 1306 01:29:50,515 --> 01:29:52,517 they never give us back the work. 1307 01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:54,561 [Sara] So why do you put the poster out? 1308 01:29:54,644 --> 01:29:56,312 I just want to see their reaction. 1309 01:29:56,354 --> 01:29:58,398 But you're not gonna see their reaction. 1310 01:29:58,481 --> 01:30:00,650 You're just not gonna get your work back. 1311 01:30:00,692 --> 01:30:03,653 At least I said what I want to say. 1312 01:30:03,987 --> 01:30:07,699 ♪ Sisters in Iran, we stand with all of you ♪ 1313 01:30:08,199 --> 01:30:11,036 ♪ 'Cause women like freedom, it's true ♪ 1314 01:30:11,119 --> 01:30:14,622 ♪ Let us stand together and spell it out ♪ 1315 01:30:14,706 --> 01:30:17,667 ♪ A-B-C-D-E fuck you ♪ 1316 01:30:17,709 --> 01:30:21,129 [crowd shouting, chanting] 1317 01:30:25,258 --> 01:30:27,427 [chanting fades] 1318 01:30:28,219 --> 01:30:30,930 [tranquil music playing] 1319 01:30:39,022 --> 01:30:41,608 -[Nicky] Yeah, it is... -[Sara] It's beautiful. 1320 01:30:43,234 --> 01:30:47,906 It's kind of amazing that this is from an iPhone photo. 1321 01:30:50,158 --> 01:30:51,534 Okay. 1322 01:31:01,336 --> 01:31:04,756 [crowd chattering] 1323 01:31:04,798 --> 01:31:07,717 [tranquil music continues] 1324 01:31:10,136 --> 01:31:12,931 [inaudible dialogue] 1325 01:31:15,266 --> 01:31:16,768 [door opens] 1326 01:31:19,854 --> 01:31:21,898 Hey! [laughing] 1327 01:31:21,940 --> 01:31:24,693 [speaking Farsi] 1328 01:31:29,447 --> 01:31:30,949 [Nahid in English] Beautiful. 1329 01:31:31,032 --> 01:31:33,743 [inaudible dialogue] 1330 01:31:35,495 --> 01:31:37,747 -Cheers. -Really nice space. 1331 01:31:40,166 --> 01:31:41,543 Cheers. 1332 01:31:42,293 --> 01:31:44,170 [music fades] 1333 01:31:44,629 --> 01:31:46,923 [footsteps approaching] 1334 01:31:47,007 --> 01:31:50,135 [gentle music playing] 1335 01:31:55,932 --> 01:31:59,811 [music intensifies with dramatic vocalizations] 1336 01:34:33,965 --> 01:34:36,801 [music and vocalizations fade]