Ataollah Hayati has had a multifaceted career that has seen him find acceptance as a director and a cinematographer. Beginning his career in the late 1980's, he has directed films such as City of Women (2000), which won the Special Jury Award at the 2001 Mar del Plata Film Festival. Showing that he really has quite a penchant for multitasking, he took up the duel roles of director and cinematographer in his recent documentary The Brief Peace (2005).
Ataollah Hayati (عطاءالله حیات
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A Brief Peace is about that Ata Hayati's fly-on-the-wall documentary is a broad study of the formalities, rituals and suffering surrounding death. Filmed on a single day at Behesht Zahra, Tehran's largest cemetery, Hayati observes mourners at different stages of the mourning and burial process as they each try to find 'a brief peace' from the suffering of loss. From the business-like arrangements of death registration to the artistry of carving and painting funeral stones, from the solitary howls of mothers to the group celebration of loved ones through music, this film provides fascinating and moving insight into grief and remembrance. In this film Ataollah Hayati (عطاءالله حیاتی) collaborates with Mastaneh Mohajer (مستانه مهاجر), Behrouz Shahamat (بهروز شهامت), Katayoon Shahabi (کتایون شهابی), Mohammadreza Moghadasian (محمدرضا مقدسیان)
Ataollah Hayati (عطاءالله حیاتی) has been a Cinematographer in some movies:
Scabies is about that Abolfazl Jalili's docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the prison, his life within this harsh environment becomes progressively worse, a near-daily fight for survival. The film is a searing indictment against a government that failed to deliver the on the promises with which it came to power: to deliver social justice to the oppressed and downtrodden. Initially released in the mid 1980s, at a time when Iran was at war with neighbouring Iraq, the film was an unwelcome edition to the Fajr Film Festival, as its theme of prison life was deemed critical of the Islamic Republic. In a re-edited version, the film was released in 1989 to critical acclaim. Twenty-five years on, the film still has an immense power and now finds its rightful place online on IMVBox. In this film Ataollah Hayati (عطاءالله حیاتی) collaborates with Hossein Panahi (حسین پناهی دژکوه), Fatemeh Naghavi (فاطمه نقوی), Abolfazl Jalili (ابوالفضل جلیلی), Ahmad Doost (احمد دوست), Gholam Reza Khozui (غلام رضا خضوئی), Rahman Moghaddam (رحمان مقدم), Hooshang Beheshti (هوشنگ بهشتی), Mohsen Panahi (محسن پناهی), Hossein Maloumi (حسین معلومی), Mehdi Asadi (مهدی اسدی), Fereydoun Borhani (فریدون برهانی), Reza Rami (رضا رامی)
