In 1962, Farrokhzad and three colleagues from Golestan Films traveled to Tabriz and in twelve days filmed The House Is Black, a documentary on the leper colony there. As for the significance of The House is Black, it had the effect of presenting Farrokhzad in a new light to some devotees of modernist literature and other intellectuals previously unconvinced of her seriousness or sincerity as an artist. Hitherto imputing some sensationalism or deliberate attention-seeking to her poetry and lifestyle, the talent and feeling that the film revealed changed their minds.