Baba Bahram, Look at the Flowers is an experimental short film built from archival footage recorded in Tehran by the artist’s younger brother, Reza, at the age of seven. Holding the camera with playful authority, he roams through their family home, garden, and streets, capturing everyday moments with a sense of wonder and instinct. The footage is addressed directly to their grandfather, Baba Bahram, creating an improvised cinematic letter between generations. The film reflects on intergenerational bonds, memory, and the aesthetics of untrained seeing. Meaning emerges through gesture, movement, and relation. Weaving together personal history with a meditative observational form, Baba Bahram invites viewers into a space where the political and poetic blur, where the family archive becomes a site of care, attention, and subtle resistance. Shot entirely on home video and reassembled years later, the film offers a tender portrait of a child’s gaze; unfiltered, relational, and quietly poetic.
