Abstract
Rites and myths are important parts of the identity and the culture of every nation. Iranian rites and performing arts, as a part of Iranian art and culture, which has always got attention throughout history, can help us recognize ancient Iranian culture and history. Cinema, among other interactive arts, has sometimes been able to portray ritual arts well. Travellers movie, made by Bahram Beyzai, is one of the most prominent examples of the visualization of ritual arts in Iran, because the movie consists of three parts, like the three theaters, in which the rites are portrayed as the main story of the movie, and the Persian culture and customs have been exhibited. This paper, which its research method is descriptive-analytical, examines the standing of rites and ritual arts in Travellers movie and analyzes its atmosphere regarding to performing rituals. Its scene design changes as the script process, so that the application of elements such as light and color, and their intensity and reduction in different mental conditions, from pleasure to mourning, has been considered wisely, and the atmosphere has a dramatic impact on the audience in different scenes. The lighting and the coloring of the scenes in the movie, indicates a tribute to beliefs and faith in rites and ritual arts.
Highlights
Religion is one of the things that has long existed in human societies and originated many cultural and social developments throughout history
The life of early human beings was completely associated with rites, which some of them are still visible in modern human societies, and they themselves can be a subject of study among sociologists and anthropologists. (Aghapoor, 2009: 12) The traditions and customs of a country can be displayed with the aid of performing arts
This paper, which is an attempt to analyze the ritual ceremonies in the Iranian performing arts, first provided a definition of rites and ritual arts in the cinema, analyzed the status of the rites in the Travellers
Summary
Religion is one of the things that has long existed in human societies and originated many cultural and social developments throughout history. The grandmother who still believes they are on the way and that the mirror must be brought to hold the wedding, did not go to the burial, and says in a scene on the roof: "Come, come on Mahtab, if you don't come, her (Mahrokh's) life will will be wasted." (Beyzai, 1371: 48). Wedding ceremony in all cultures and rituals is blessed and auspicious, and this matter in the Traveller's movie, is well felt by the furniture and the overall color of the house, which is white, and the splendor and the happiness of the house and the dominant bright light in the scene. Mani's memorial, which meant calling him, and his absence, as well as the fact that he was spiritually present among them, and that he was superior to the assembly, and if he ever descended among the wakeful believers, he will sit in his place, and they showed that they would never give his place to anyone else "(Ghokassian, 1371: 159)
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