Namanameh News Agency: Qasem Rastikhah, born in May 1954 in Tehran, is a photographer, photographer and documentary filmmaker of Iranian cinema and television.
He is one of the pioneers of the art of “digital underwater photography”, which has translated a book under the same name by the American author “Larry Gates”. He is also a professor at the University of Radio and Television and a comprehensive scientific and applied teacher who teaches in two fields of photography and imaging.
His father, Akbar Rastikhah, was one of the most trusted and prominent people in present-day Mohammadiyeh Square or the Old Execution Square in Tehran, and his grandmother “Khanum” was one of the few literate people in the 1940s and 1960s who taught the Qur’an. “Khanum” was highly respected by the residents of the neighborhood, and Akbar, despite being acquainted with the bitter taste of an orphan as a child, chose the job of an architect, and due to his special skill in his art, his work flourished and he became one of the famous benefactors Became a neighborhood. Aqsa Mosque, in the old neighborhood of Saadat Bazaar in Tehran, was built by this old architect.
Qasim immigrated to the United States after high school and studied architecture at a university in Miami on his father’s advice. In the meantime, when he returns to Iran to visit his family, he is informed that one of the best government cinema training centers has been established in Iran. So, despite spending some time in architecture, he decided to continue his studies at the High School of Cinema and Television in the field of filmmaking due to his interest in the art of photography.
At that time, it was impossible for a high school graduate to study in this field in the United States without having work experience and familiarity with filmmaking.
In 1977, the situation was different for him. Eventually, his perseverance and interest in the field enabled him to complete his studies very soon. And his first documentary about the life and art of an unknown Iranian artist, entitled “Art batik that lasts? »Make.
He approached an old man who was only dyeing silk fabrics for Azeri-speaking women in a dark room south of Tehran.
This documentary not only revived a declining art, but also expanded this ancient Iranian art, to the point that today it is taught in most art universities in Tehran and other cities by the students of that artist named Hossein Ganjineh.
Before his death, Hossein Ganjineh said: “Although after making this film, which caused the public to return to batik art, and dozens of films about me and batik art were made and broadcast on television, but none of the documentary effect of Qasem Rasti Would not have!
Batik is an art that is well known today and is taught in most art universities in Tehran and other cities in Iran. Batik is a special type of dyeing and painting on fabric that is universally accepted, especially in Europe. The batik art process is delicate, complex and a bit difficult. In addition to artistic and decorative applications in the production of batik paintings, the most expensive Iranian women’s scarves are currently batik. Because the whole process of batik production is done by hand, and the fabric must be pure silk.
“The old man called his products a crow, and sent them to the region to cover the heads of Azerbaijani women,” said Qasim Rastikhah. There was a sign of deep sadness in his speech. Fear of destroying his art! Not just his art, but his self-destruction and a lifetime of effort. “After all, no one but him would give in to such hard and low-profit work.”
After his military service, he worked for the Do Sima network and then for the Zanjan Radio Center, which took place during the Iranian Revolution, and the Zanjan Radio Center became the Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Zanjan. For this reason, in the center of Zanjan, in addition to daily reporting programs, it makes social and revolutionary documentaries.
Addressing revolutionary and social issues becomes a context that goes to war zones with the start of the Iraq-Iran war, and this time to record scenes of the heroism of the youth of his homeland. He is currently making a documentary entitled “The First War”!
During the war, Qassem Rastikhah began a wider field of filmmaking by undergoing a diving course and underwater documentary on topics such as familiarity with the sea, diving, pearls, fish, caviar, Bushehr nuclear power plant, water mines, submarine construction, and production. he does.
The documentary (Entering the Underwater World), the oldest and first Iranian diving documentary, was made by him. In this documentary, the sea and the science of diving were introduced in a way that no other film has been made after 35 years.
(Three trips)
The story is in the pre-production stage, written to make a movie. It can be made into a three-episode movie or three separate movies.
(First trip)
The story of a death that occurs in water.
(Second trip)
The story of a death that occurs underground.
(Third trip)
The story of a death that occurs in space.
After retiring from radio and television, he started a new chapter in his life and continued his cooperation and activity with various institutions in making documentaries. Most of these documentaries were made in foreign countries and some in Iran and in English. Documentaries of this period in Turkish countries,