Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Woven Sounds
Directed by Mehdi Aminian
Duration 40’ | Farsi with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX23 Film Programme:
Thursday – Saturday, 11:00 – 17:00
Film Library
Production Country, Year: Austria, 2023 | Produced by Mehdi Aminian | Producer Mehdi Aminian | Director of Photography Mehdi Aminian | Sound Mehdi Aminian | Editor Mehdi Aminian
“Woven Sounds” documents the intangible cultural heritage – the music styles – surrounding the process of carpet weaving in Iran. Naqshe Khani (patterns singing) is a mechanism of singing the patterns of a carpet to other co-weavers. To this date, no documents, studies, or presentations on this topic could be found, and this film is the first attempt to document this rapidly vanishing intangible cultural heritage.
Besides being a recognised composer, multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist, Mehdi Aminian is the initiator of Roots Revival, within which, since 2013, numerous musical projects based on intercultural exchange have been developed. He is also an ethnomusicologist with active academic research documenting various musical cultures and vanishing musical cultures in particular.
More info about the WOMEX 23 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in A Coruña! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
Woven Sounds
Directed by Mehdi Aminian
Duration 40’ | Farsi with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX23 Film Programme:
Thursday – Saturday, 11:00 – 17:00
Film Library
Production Country, Year: Austria, 2023 | Produced by Mehdi Aminian | Producer Mehdi Aminian | Director of Photography Mehdi Aminian | Sound Mehdi Aminian | Editor Mehdi Aminian
“Woven Sounds” documents the intangible cultural heritage – the music styles – surrounding the process of carpet weaving in Iran. Naqshe Khani (patterns singing) is a mechanism of singing the patterns of a carpet to other co-weavers. To this date, no documents, studies, or presentations on this topic could be found, and this film is the first attempt to document this rapidly vanishing intangible cultural heritage.
Besides being a recognised composer, multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist, Mehdi Aminian is the initiator of Roots Revival, within which, since 2013, numerous musical projects based on intercultural exchange have been developed. He is also an ethnomusicologist with active academic research documenting various musical cultures and vanishing musical cultures in particular.
More info about the WOMEX 23 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in A Coruña! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
