24 Frames

Synopsis: 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 each one into its own subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignette, 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.
Extras:
-New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami, who helped finish the film after his father’s death.
-New conversation between Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire.
-New short documentary about the making of the film by Abbas Kiarostami collaborator Salma Monshizadeh.
-An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri.
Language: English
Country: Iran
Subjects: Art; Film studies
Keywords: photography; film processing; still images

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