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Hejleh · a photograph becomes a narrative
Latin transliteration of the source title; also rendered Hejleh or Hajleh in source descriptions.
Golestan’s image and Rabihavi’s story meet in a video presented by Tableau on the war’s anniversary.
- Credited to
- Kaveh Golestan · story by Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication / collection
- Tableau Mag
- Source date
- Tableau channel upload · 18 September 2013
- Original language
- Persian
- Format
- Video work from a photograph and story
- Recorded duration
- 15 minutes 47 seconds · channel page
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Persian · 15 minutes 47 seconds · channel page
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The complete 15:47 video is available from Tableau’s public channel stream. Persian captions are offered; their accuracy and alignment have not been independently verified.
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English context drawn from the originating credits and introduction. A complete soundtrack transcript is unavailable here.
Original English orientation based on the credited publication and its media description. Recording metadata, written material and spoken content are distinguished in the notes.
An image, then a story
Tableau credits a work by Kaveh Golestan and a story by Rabihavi. In the introductory statement, Rabihavi describes choosing a face from Golestan’s war photographs as the principal character, before choosing his story. The description preserves their different creative contributions. Source 1
The occasion of the upload
Tableau dates the video upload to 18 September 2013 and frames its public presentation around the thirty-third anniversary of the war’s outbreak. The player gives 15:47. These fields do not establish when the photograph, story or finished video was made. Source 1
An introduction is not the whole soundtrack
The written introduction turns martyrdom into a question about a young person’s understanding of death. It is a useful route into the collaboration, but it does not reproduce the complete spoken video. A transcript control alone establishes neither a captured transcript nor accessible captions. Source 1
Recognising a face without knowing its life
In Tableau’s published introduction, Rabihavi describes Golestan’s photographed faces as both familiar and strange: close enough to resemble him, yet separated from him by another person’s experience. His questions concern what passed through a young man’s mind before voluntarily approaching death and what death meant to that person. Choosing a face first and a story afterwards makes this uncertainty part of the collaboration’s starting point. Source 1
Availability & access
- Available material
- The complete 15:47 video was verified through Tableau’s public channel stream on 4 October 2026. The originating channel also supplies Rabihavi’s written introductory statement.
- Reading / listening access
- The Persian introductory description is available. YouTube offers Persian captions in the player checked on 4 October 2026; their accuracy and alignment remain unverified. The introduction is separate from a complete spoken transcript.
- Reproduction
- The recording remains with its credited publisher and creators. No reproduction licence is established here; consult the originating source for use beyond listening or viewing there.
Sources & credits
- Tableau Mag · Hejleh
Upload dated 18 September 2013, page runtime 15:47. Credits Kaveh Golestan’s work and a story by Rabihavi, and carries Rabihavi’s introductory explanation.