FiLmS Full: Piremard va bagh-e sangi'ash (The Oldman and His Stone Garden) (2004)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091828/

Country: Iran
Language; Persian

Darvish Khan's Stone Garden is located about 45 kilometers from Sirjan in Iran's Kerman province and 40 kilometers from Shiraz. The garden was created almost 4 decades ago by the late Darvish Khan Esfandiarpoor upon losing his treasured garden. Darvish Khan lived in the garden, with his only son and 7 grandchildren until his death in 2007. While he was a deaf and mute gardener, his abstract artworks which were a sign of his great imagination. During his lifetime due to his disabilities communication was never easy, however, Darvish Khan was always eager to show his work and explain about them to visitors.

The trunks and branches of dry trees were the basis of Darvish Khan’s stone garden and on these trees he used to connect different shapes of stones or any other objects, even dead animals he would find where he was living. He had a description for each of those decorated trees and by nodding, especially to the sky and then to his artworks, he would try to share his thoughts and imaginations.

Considering the weight of some of the stones, much effort had been put in creating this garden. One of the residents of the village recalls that three months after Darvish Khan’s death, one of the trees collapsed. It took 3 or 4 men to erect it again, even though originally Darvish Khan had acted alone in doing so.