Private Project

The grazing with three cows

Grazing and Gazing

In the language game used in the title of the work, there is a point that points to two main aspects of the work: one is the cinematic and documentary aspect of the work and the other is what happens in stillness and looking at the frames: something of the kind of what happens in one of the oldest art medias, painting.
I have always dreamed of being a painter, and although I had never been able to work in this medium, this desire has always played a dominant role in my use of the camera.
At a time when cinema, like many artistic mediums, is caught in a cycle of repetition, in my opinion, perhaps the way out of this situation and to restore the novelty and magic of the image is to return to the original fountains of pictorial art. nature and its painting.
The main challenge in this way is to move between these two mediums and their fields. A field of motion (cinema) and a meaningful field in stillness (painting).
In following the three black cows, like a painting workshop helded in nature, they were going from frame to frame like painting models and I was tried to record the process of their movement and stillness, which caused them to becomed a dark background for the frames, and each time they presented a fresh and full detailed image of nature to the audience. and in the next step I had to find the right arrangement for Show these frames in the form of cinema medium.
An enjoyable, overwhelming, and sometimes unattainable challenge, but a lovable experience in the pursuit of an old dream.

  • Mohamadreza Mohajer
    Director
  • Mohamadreza Mohajer
    Writer
  • Mohamadreza Mohajer
    Cinematographer
  • Mohamadreza Mohajer
    Producer
  • Farzad Tabaie
    edit
  • Mehdi Mohajer
    production manager
  • Mohamadreza Mohajer
    production assistant
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    چریدن با سه گاو
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 23, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    3,200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    digital DV
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Mohamadreza Mohajer

Mohamadreza Mohajer

Documentary filmmaker, Cameraman, Photographer

Born: 1970 - Isfahan - IRAN
Education: University of Art, Tehran
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Photography · (1991 - 1997)

Filmography Director:
Marvi passageway – short documentary film - 2007
Govkhoni – one episode of Documentary series: On the periphery of the desert - 2007
Khafr - one episode of Documentary series: Neighbor with the sky - 2009
Exile – short experimental documentary film - 2020
The grazing with three cows - short experimental film - 2021
In the seeing’s trap -short experimental documentary film - 2021

documentary cameraman:
Kolah ghazi wildlife Area - short documentary film - 2004
The king of the rocks - short documentary film – 2004
Door – video art – 2005
Vulture foothills - Documentary series (all 4 EP) - 2005
Marvi passageway – short documentary film
On the periphery of the desert - documentary series (all 7 EP) - 2007
Neighbor with the sky - documentary series (all 4 EP) - 2009
Zagros sun - documentary series (all 2 EP) - 2013
White rainbow - short documentary film - 2017
Exile – short experimental documentary film - 2020
The grazing with three cows - short experimental - 2021
In the seeing’s trap -short experimental documentary film - 2021

Photography / Solo exhibition:
No name - 17 February 2012 until 29 February 2012 - Naghshkhaneh gallery - Isfahan – Iran
Postcards from Mesr - 2 February 2018 until 8 February 2018 - Yasna gallery - Tehran – Iran

Photography / Group Exhibition:
International Photography Exhibition: Landscape - Blank Wall Gallery – Atene - Greece - 1 June 2018 until 14 June 2018
International Photography Exhibition: The Essential - Loosenart - Millepiani – Rome - Italy - 13 November 2018 until 22 November 2018
International Photography Exhibition: Landscape - Blank Wall Gallery – Atene - Greece - 28 June 2019 until 10 July 2019
International Photography Exhibition: Form - CICA Museum – Gyeonggi do - Korea - 20 September 2019 until 6 October 2019
International Photography Exhibition: Memory & Oblivion - Busan Architecture Urban Media Exhibition 2019
Lecture hall - Busan museum of art - Busan - Korea - 18 October 2019 until 22 October 2019

Film criticism with Farzad Tbaie
DiCaprio is no longer DiCaprio - The Revenant 2015 - Etemad newspaper no.3477 - 28 February 2016
Building a house on the water - The big short 2015 - Etemad newspaper no.3551 - 14 June 2016
In the praise of possession - A review on Ritual documentaries movies of Nasser Taghvai - Engar magazine – 15 November 2016
The Bitterness of a sweet dream - Breath 2015 - Engar magazine – 20 December 2016
Dheepan is name of all immigrants - Dheepan 2015 - Etemad newspaper no.3551 - 29 June 2017
The hanging eight - The Hateful Eight 2015 - Rastak magazine – no.11 – December & January 2017-18

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