Ebrahim Mokhtari & Afsar Nazari, 2020, Cheshmeh Pub., 320 pages.
Mokkarameh is a self-learned painter who got famous during her life time and attracted attention in her type of painting even abroad. Her special character and subjects of paintings enthused me to make “Mokkarameh, Memories and Dreams. (1998)”. The idea of writing her biography as a written complement to the film came to me during making the film, but I neglected it through post production, screenings and festival participations, then suddenly found out that she left us…
Her passing away made me hesitate to execute my idea since what we had for her biography was just some recorded chats with her which, in sum, were only like clues and could not illustrate her life properly. But the phantom did not leave me alone especially for it was kind of paying tribute to her.