Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian عباس كيارستمى; born June 22, 1940 in Tehran ) is an Iranian screenwriter, film director and poet. He is considered one of the most important and best-known directors of the Iranian film.

Among the films

Kiarostami's films show the influence of Tati, Rossellini and Bresson. He turns usually without specific script. Film makers especially Kiarostami's skills are praised in dealing with children and non-professional actors. But his work is particularly important because it makes the social position of the cinema and the director and the real relationship between film ( camera ) and object on the subject of his films. The result is a Metakino that oscillates between documentary and fiction. The films seem to strive to make their artificiality and constructedness visible. The limits of the possibilities of cinema are explored, and often finally exceeded seemingly in a transcendental act.

Kiarostami's reputation is mainly due to the appreciation of other film directors. For example, Jean -Luc Godard is attributed the quote: The film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. And Martin Scorsese describes Kiarostami as representatives of the highest artistic level in the cinema. Kiarostami's films to a wider audience is but to date still unknown. The work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is to develop a close relationship with the Iranian or Persian poetry.

Persian literature has mainly passed on through the poetry and functioned throughout history as a carrier of national identity of Iranians. Poetry was among the historical circumstances the only possible art after the Islamization of the country in the seventh century. Kiarostami is expanding its dramaturgy on this poetic base to tell his own poetry. A poetry that does not tell the filming of poetry, but poetry of modern cinema. So you can assign his cinema to a genre that holds a mix of western and oriental culture. In contrast to the poetic cinema tells this genre cinema poetry not only from real life, but the images themselves live on the canvas. As if the audience live this movie on the big screen. In this context, the images showcase the modern philosophy of cinema on the canvas that the cinema is the reality. Three works of him, Where is the house of my friend, Life goes on ( Life and nothing more ) and Through the Olive grove, known as a trilogy, show exemplary the development of his cinema.

For poetry

A first collection of poems by Abbas Kiarostami appeared in 1999 in Tehran. It consists of 221 ​​short, floating light and laconic powerful lyrics that have a stylistic proximity to the Japanese haiku poetry. After they had been previously translated into English, French and Italian, it was released in 2004 under the title In the company of the wind also in German ( Suhrkamp Verlag, with an afterword by Peter Handke ).

Filmography

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: Silence and moving images. Art museum situation, Bochum, then in 2013 at the Museum Wiesbaden and in Chemnitz. Catalog.
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