SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“[I]t’s Kiarostami’s phenomenological presence that somehow turns every image or camera posture into a question about living, seeing, empathy, and essence.”
114 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. No dialogue. DCP.
Screening as part of “Reflections,” a series of films that slow down time and open space for contemplation.
For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images—most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife—and digitally animated them into subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignettes, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS in this series:
Museum Hours (2012): Sunday, January 4 at 12 p.m.
24 Frames (2017): Thursday, January 15 at 3:30 p.m.
Memoria (2021): Saturday, January 17 at 12 p.m.
Memoria (2021): Thursday, January 22 at 3:30 p.m.
Wisdom of Happiness: Friday, January 23 at 6 p.m.
Wisdom of Happiness: Saturday, January 24 at 12:30 p.m.
Wisdom of Happiness: Thursday, January 29 at 3:30 p.m.