Mohammad Tahaminejad was born in1942 in Tehran and studied journalism and cinema and have lectured in film and cinematic research at several universities. The central tendencies in his career had been as follows:
1-Documentary film making on social and cultural topics .His first film Iranian cinema from the constitutional Revolution to Sepanta (1970) was a portrait of Iranian cinema pioneers and the context they challenged with .There he tried to find and assemble some of the Iranian first f
...orgotten lost films in a narrative compilation (hybrid) film together with re-enactment and interviews with silent film personalities . like: Mr. Habibollah Moraad the hero of Haji Agha Actor e cinema ( Ohanian -1933)and director Ebrahim Moradi ( of Bolhavas -1934) and with our first talkie film Dokhtar -e Lor (1933) actress Roohanghiz Saminejad and others . The film’s perspective supported by a sociologic historical theme as he called “ searching for disappointment roots ( rishe yaabiye ya-es).
His other films are : Return of the prisoners of war(1991) water distributor's night (1981) in a desert village and housing crisis in a modern city (1972)
2- He has achieved some qualitative studies since the end of 1960's. In 1994 he rewrote the script of his first documentary film , and published it. A book which selected as the best book of the year -1995. Two other books are: the cinema of dreams and phantasm (cinemaye ro ya pardaze iran 1986) and Iranian documentary cinema, the field of differentials (arse ye tafavotha-2001) a book about history and ideas.
3-Searching and introducing Iranian fiction and nonfiction (and footage) films had been also his engagement.
4- Documentary cinema from visual anthropological viewpoint and
