Fifi Howls from Happiness Trailer (2013)

Trailer for the documentary Fifi Howls from Happiness.

Fifi Howls from Happiness introduces the vivid, charismatic and combative Iranian artist Bahman Mohasses. Celebrated in pre-revolutionary Iran, Mohasses was written out of its history since 1979. No one had heard of him since, until filmmaker Mitra Farahani tracked the ageing artist down to a hotel room in Rome. Equally prone to egotism and self destruction, he had a disturbing tendency of destroying his own paintings. The film witnesses the attempts to reclaim and value what is left and follows the creative process of his last work.