Abbas Kiarostami
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Abbas Kiarostami (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–94), Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997) – which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). In his later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.
Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Masoud Kimiai, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai and Parviz Kimiavi. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.
Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films.
Filmography
Feature films
Short films
Year | Film | Director | Writer | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1972 | Recess | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1975 | Two Solutions for One Problem | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1975 | So Can I | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1976 | The Colours | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1977 | Tribute to the Teachers | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | documentary short |
1977 | Jahan-nama Palace | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | documentary short |
1977 | How to Make Use of Leisure Time | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1978 | Solution | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | also called Solution No.1 in English |
1980 | Driver | Template:Yes | ||
1980 | Orderly or Disorderly | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1982 | The Chorus | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1995 | Solution | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1997 | The Birth of Light | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
1999 | Volte sempre, Abbas! | Template:Yes | ||
2005 | Roads of Kiarostami | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
2007 | Is There a Place to Approach? | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | one of 15 segments in Persian Carpet, in which each is by a different Iranian director |
2013 | The Girl in the Lemon Factory | Template:Yes | also written by Chiara Maranon, who directed | |
2014 | Seagull Eggs | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | documentary short |