Hossein Gil in the picture frame

After the conversion from Zoroastrianism to Islam, Persian art continued its visual practices. Persian miniatures provide great examples of such continued attempts. The deliberate lack of perspective in Persian miniature enabled the artist to have different plots and sub-plots within the same image space. A very popular form of such art was Pardeh Khani. Another type of art in the same category was Naqqali.  Popular dramatic performance arts in Iran before the advent of cinema included Marionette, Saye-bazi (shadow plays), Rouhozi (comical acts), and Ta’zieh.

Cinema entered the public realm, but its cultural and economic capabilities were still unknown. As a consequence, theaters experienced a growing trend at the outset that revealed the economic attractions of cinema. Due to equating him with the Constitutional Revolutionaries, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi’s Kinetoscopes corridor didn’t last for even a month and was closed, resulting in his leaving Homeland.