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عباس کیارستمی
`Abbās Kiyārostamī

Abbas Kiarostami (2004)
Born: June 22, 1940 (age 66)
Tehran, Iran
Occupation: Filmmaker

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی ‎ `Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940, Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.[1][2][3] An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over 40 films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, A Taste of Cherry, and The Wind Will Carry Us.

Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.

Kiarostami is 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 Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialog and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.[4]

Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists; documentary style narrative films;[5] stories that take place in rural villages; and conversations that unfold inside cars utilizing stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialog, titles, and themes of his films.

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[edit] Personal life

Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine Arts
Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine Arts

Even as a young boy Kiarostami was interested in the arts. He was a quiet child who loved painting and drawing with crayons.[6] He continued to paint into his late teens and won a painting competition at the age of eighteen shortly before he left home to study at the Tehran University School of Fine Arts.[7] There he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his degree by a job as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters and creating commercials. Between 1962 and 1966, he shot some 150 advertisements for Iranian television. Towards the late sixties, he began creating credit titles for films (including Gheysar by Masoud Kimiai) and illustrating children's books.[7][8]

Abbas married Parvin Amir-Gholi in 1969, and divorced in 1982. They had two sons: Ahmad was born in 1971, and Bahman in 1978. Bahman Kiarostami has become a director and cinematographer in his own right, and directed the documentary Journey to the Land of the Traveller in 1993, at the age of fifteen.

Kiarostami was one of the few directors that remained in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when many of his fellow Iranian filmmakers and directors fled to the west, and believes that it was one of the most important decisions of his career. He has stated how his permanent base in Iran and national identity has consolidated his ability as a filmmaker:[6][9]

"When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another the tree will no longer bear fruit," he says. "And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree."

Kiarostami frequently appears wearing dark-lensed spectacles or sunglasses. He wears them for medical reasons due to a sensitivity to light.[10]

In 2000, at the San Francisco Film Festival award ceremony, Kiarostami surprised everyone by giving away his Akira Kurosawa Prize for lifetime achievement in directing to veteran Iranian actor Behrooz Vossoughi for his many years of contribution to Iranian Cinema.[11][12]


[edit] Poetry and photography

Kiarostami directing Five in 2004
Kiarostami directing Five in 2004

Abbas Kiarostami, along with Ridley Scott, Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, and Gulzar, is part of a tradition of filmmakers whose artistic expressions are not restricted to one medium, but who show the ability to use other forms such as poetry, set designs, painting, or photography to relate their interpretation of the world we live in and to illustrate their understanding of our preoccupations and identities.[13]

Kiarostami is a noted photographer and poet. A bilingual collection of more than 200 of his poems, Walking with the Wind, was published by Harvard University Press. His photographic work includes Untitled Photographs, a collection of over thirty photographs, essentially of snow landscapes, taken in his hometown Tehran, between 1978 and 2003). He has also published a collection of his poems in 1999.[14][7]

Riccardo Zipoli, from the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia in Venice, has examined some aspects of the relations and interconnections between Kiarostami's poems and his films. The results of the analysis reveal how Kiarostami's treatment of this theme is similar in his poems and films.[15]

Kiarostami's poetry is reminiscent of the later nature poems of the Persian painter-poet, Sohrab Sepehri. On the other hand, the succinct allusion to philosophical truths without the need for deliberation, the non-judgmental tone of the poetic voice, and the structure of the poem—absence of personal pronouns, adverbs or over reliance on adjectives—as well as the lines containing a kigo (a season word) gives much of this poetry a Haikuesque characteristic.[13]

[edit] Reception and criticism

This Book was released when Kiarostami was the honored guest of the 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece where he opened an exhibition titled "The Roads of Abbas Kiarostami".
This Book was released when Kiarostami was the honored guest of the 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece where he opened an exhibition titled "The Roads of Abbas Kiarostami".

Kiarostami has received worldwide acclaim for his work from both audiences and critics, and, in 1999, he was unequivocally voted the most important film director of the 1990s by two international critics polls.[16] Four of his films placed in the top six of Cinematheque Ontario's Best of the '90s poll.[17] He has gained recognition from film theorists, critics, as well as peers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Nanni Moretti (who made a short film about opening one of Kiarostami's films in his theater in Rome), Chris Marker, Ray Carney, and Akira Kurosawa, who said of Kiarostami's films: "Words cannot describe my feelings about them ... When Satyajit Ray passed on, I was very depressed. But after seeing Kiarostami’s films, I thanked God for giving us just the right person to take his place."[7][18] Critically-acclaimed directors such as Martin Scorsese have commented that "Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema."[19] In 2006, The Guardian's panel of critics ranked Kiarostami as the best non-American film director.[20]

A poster from the "Kiarostami event" at The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival (2004)
A poster from the "Kiarostami event" at The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival (2004)

Nevertheless, critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum have argued that "there's no getting around the fact that the movies of Abbas Kiarostami divide audiences—in this country, in his native Iran, and everywhere else they're shown."[21] Rosenbaum argues that disagreements and controversy over Kiarostami's pictures have arisen from his style of filmmaking because what in Hollywood would count as essential narrative information is frequently missing from Kiarostami's films. Camera placement, likewise, often defies standard audience expectations. In the closing sequences of Life and Nothing More and Through the Olive Trees, the audience is forced to imagine missing scenes. In Homework and Close-Up, parts of the sound track have been masked, or drop in and out.

While Kiarostami has won significant acclaim in Europe for several of his films, the Iranian government has refused to permit the showing of his films in his native Iran. Kiarostami has responded, "The government has decided not to show any of my films for the past 10 years... I think they don't understand my films and so prevent them being shown just in case there is a message they don't want to get out".[19] However, Kiarostami has faced opposition in the United States as well. In 2002, he was refused a visa to attend the New York Film Festival in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.[22][23] Festival director Richard Pena, who had invited him, said: "It's a terrible sign of what's happening in my country today that no one seems to realize or care about the kind of negative signal this sends out to the entire Muslim world".[19] Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki boycotted the festival in protest.[24] Kiarostami had been invited by the New York International Film Festival, as well as Ohio University and Harvard University.[25]

In 2005, London Film School organized a festival of the Kiarostami’s work, named "Abbas Kiarostami: Visions of the Artist", as well as a workshop. Ben Gibson, Director of the London Film School, said, "Very few people have the creative and intellectual clarity to invent cinema from its most basic elements, from the ground up. We are very lucky to have the chance to see a master like Kiarostami thinking on his feet."[26] In 2007, The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center co-organized a festival of the Kiarostami's work, named "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker".[27] Kiarostami and his cinematic style have been the subject of several books and two films namely Il Giorno della prima di Close Up (1996), directed by Nanni Moretti and Abbas Kiarostami - The Art Of Living (2003), directed by Fergus Daly.

[edit] Honors and awards

Kiarostami accepting a lifetime achievement award from Martin Scorsese in Marrakech International Film Festival.
Kiarostami accepting a lifetime achievement award from Martin Scorsese in Marrakech International Film Festival.

Kiarostami has won the admiration of audiences and critics worldwide and received some 70 awards till 2000.[28] Here are some representatives:

[edit] Film festival work

Kiarostami was a member of the jury at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and in 2005 president of the Camera d'or Jury
Kiarostami was a member of the jury at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and in 2005 president of the Camera d'or Jury

Kiarostami was a member of the jury at numerous festivals, most notably the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, 2002 and 2005. He was also the president of the Camera d'or Jury in Cannes Film Festival 2005.

Some representatives:[29][30]

[edit] Books by Kiarostami

[edit] See also

Kiarostami's poetry collection: Walking with the wind (2002)
Kiarostami's poetry collection: Walking with the wind (2002)
Kiarostami's films
Kiarostami's assistants
General

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Panel of critics (2006). The world's 40 best directors. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  2. ^ a b Karen Simonian (2002). Abbas Kiarostami Films Featured at Wexner Center. Wexner center for the art. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  3. ^ a b 2002 Ranking for Film Directors. British Film Institute (2002). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  4. ^ a b Ivone Margulies (2007). Abbas Kiarostami. Princeton University. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  5. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami Biography. Firouzan Film (2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  6. ^ a b c d Abbas fabulous. theage.com.au (2003). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Abbas Kiarostami: Biography. Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  8. ^ a b Ed Hayes (2002). 10 x Ten: Kiarostami’s journey. Open Democracy. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  9. ^ a b Landscapes of the mind. Guardian Unlimited (2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  10. ^ a b Ari Siletz (2006). Besides censorship. iranian.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  11. ^ a b Judy Stone and Ari Siletz. Not Quite A Memoire. Firouzan Films. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  12. ^ a b Jeff Lambert (2000). 43rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Sense of Cinema.
  13. ^ a b c d Narguess Farzad (2005). Simplicity and Bliss: Poems of Abbas Kiarostami. Iran Heritage Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  14. ^ Kiarostami mostra fotos de neve (Kiarostami shows snow photographs) (Portuguese) - a newspaper article on the display of Untitled Photographs in Lisbon.
  15. ^ a b Riccardo Zipoli (2005). Uncertain Reality: A Topos in Kiarostami's Poems and Films. Iran Heritage Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  16. ^ a b Dorna Khazeni (2002). Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past Present and Future, by Hamid Dabashi.. Brightlightsfilms. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  17. ^ a b Jason Anderson (2002). Carried by the wind: Films by Abbas Kiarostami. Eye Weekley. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  18. ^ a b Cynthia Rockwell (2001). Carney on Cassavetes: Film critic Ray Carney sheds light on the work of legendary indie filmmaker, John Cassavetes.. NEFilm. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  19. ^ a b c d e f Stuart Jeffries (2005). Abbas Kiarostami - Not A Martyr. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  20. ^ a b Panel of critics (2006). The world's 40 best directors. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  21. ^ a b
  22. ^ a b Andrew O'Hehir (2002). Iran's leading filmmaker denied U.S. visa. Salon.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  23. ^ a b Iranian director hands back award. BBC (2002). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  24. ^ a b Celestine Bohlen (2002). Abbas Kiarostami Controversy at the 40th NYFF. Human Rights Watch. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  25. ^ a b Jacques Mandelbaum (2002). No entry for Kiarostami. Le Monde. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  26. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami workshop 2- 10 May 2005. Pars times (2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  27. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker. Museum of Modern Art (2007). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  28. ^ a b Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (2002). Abbas Kiarostami. Sense of Cinema. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  29. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami. IndiePix (2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  30. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  31. ^ Kiarostami mostra fotos de neve (Kiarostami shows snow photographs) (Portuguese) - a newspaper article on the display of Untitled Photographs in Lisbon.

[edit] Secondary literature

The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena

Books:

  • Erice-Kiarostami. Correspondences, 2006, ISBN 8496540243, catalogue of an exhibition together with the spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice
  • Alberto Elena, The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, Saqi Books 2005, ISBN 0-86356-594-8
  • Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abbas Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors), University of Illinois Press 2003 (Paperback), ISBN 0-252-07111-5
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, The Evidence of Film - Abbas Kiarostami, Yves Gevaert, Belgium 2001, ISBN 2-930128-17-8
  • Jean-claude Bernardet, Caminhos de Kiarostami, Melhoramentos; 1 edition (2004), ISBN 978-8535905717
  • Marco Dalla Gassa, Abbas Kiarostami, Publisher: Mani (2000) ISBN 978-8880121473
  • Youssef Ishaghpour, Le réel, face et pile: Le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami , Farrago (2000) ISBN 978-2844900630
  • Alberto Barbera and Elisa Resegotti (editors), Kiarostami, Electa (April 30, 2004) ISBN 978-8837023904
  • Slavoj Žižek, Lacan: The Silent Partners (Wo Es War), Verso (April 15, 2006) ISBN 978-1844675494

Articles:

  • Kretzschmar, Laurent "Is Cinema Renewing Itself?", Film-Philosophy. vol. 6 no. 15, July 2002.
  • Rosenbaum, Jonathan, "Lessons from a Master," Chicago Reader, June 14, 1996 (Other early Chicago Reader articles on Kiarostami: October 23, 1992 and September 29, 1995)

[edit] External links


Persondata
NAME Kiarostami, Abbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film director, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran, Iran
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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عباس کیارستمی
`Abbās Kiyārostamī

Abbas Kiarostami (2004)
Born: June 22, 1940 (age 66)
Tehran, Iran
Occupation: Filmmaker

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی ‎ `Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940, Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.[1][2][3] An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over 40 films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, A Taste of Cherry, and The Wind Will Carry Us.

Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.

Kiarostami is 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 Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialog and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.[4]

Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists; documentary style narrative films;[5] stories that take place in rural villages; and conversations that unfold inside cars utilizing stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialog, titles, and themes of his films.

[edit] Personal life

Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine Arts
Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine Arts

Even as a young boy Kiarostami was interested in the arts. He was a quiet child who loved painting and drawing with crayons.[6] He continued to paint into his late teens and won a painting competition at the age of eighteen shortly before he left home to study at the Tehran University School of Fine Arts.[7] There he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his degree by a job as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters and creating commercials. Between 1962 and 1966, he shot some 150 advertisements for Iranian television. Towards the late sixties, he began creating credit titles for films (including Gheysar by Masoud Kimiai) and illustrating children's books.[7][8]

Abbas married Parvin Amir-Gholi in 1969, and divorced in 1982. They had two sons: Ahmad was born in 1971, and Bahman in 1978. Bahman Kiarostami has become a director and cinematographer in his own right, and directed the documentary Journey to the Land of the Traveller in 1993, at the age of fifteen.

Kiarostami was one of the few directors that remained in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when many of his fellow Iranian filmmakers and directors fled to the west, and believes that it was one of the most important decisions of his career. He has stated how his permanent base in Iran and national identity has consolidated his ability as a filmmaker:[6][9]

"When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another the tree will no longer bear fruit," he says. "And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree."

Kiarostami frequently appears wearing dark-lensed spectacles or sunglasses. He wears them for medical reasons due to a sensitivity to light.[10]

In 2000, at the San Francisco Film Festival award ceremony, Kiarostami surprised everyone by giving away his Akira Kurosawa Prize for lifetime achievement in directing to veteran Iranian actor Behrooz Vossoughi for his many years of contribution to Iranian Cinema.[11][12]


[edit] Poetry and photography

Kiarostami directing Five in 2004
Kiarostami directing Five in 2004

Abbas Kiarostami, along with Ridley Scott, Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, and Gulzar, is part of a tradition of filmmakers whose artistic expressions are not restricted to one medium, but who show the ability to use other forms such as poetry, set designs, painting, or photography to relate their interpretation of the world we live in and to illustrate their understanding of our preoccupations and identities.[13]

Kiarostami is a noted photographer and poet. A bilingual collection of more than 200 of his poems, Walking with the Wind, was published by Harvard University Press. His photographic work includes Untitled Photographs, a collection of over thirty photographs, essentially of snow landscapes, taken in his hometown Tehran, between 1978 and 2003). He has also published a collection of his poems in 1999.[31][7]

Riccardo Zipoli, from the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia in Venice, has examined some aspects of the relations and interconnections between Kiarostami's poems and his films. The results of the analysis reveal how Kiarostami's treatment of this theme is similar in his poems and films.[15]

Kiarostami's poetry is reminiscent of the later nature poems of the Persian painter-poet, Sohrab Sepehri. On the other hand, the succinct allusion to philosophical truths without the need for deliberation, the non-judgmental tone of the poetic voice, and the structure of the poem—absence of personal pronouns, adverbs or over reliance on adjectives—as well as the lines containing a kigo (a season word) gives much of this poetry a Haikuesque characteristic.[13]

[edit] Reception and criticism

This Book was released when Kiarostami was the honored guest of the 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece where he opened an exhibition titled "The Roads of Abbas Kiarostami".
This Book was released when Kiarostami was the honored guest of the 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece where he opened an exhibition titled "The Roads of Abbas Kiarostami".

Kiarostami has received worldwide acclaim for his work from both audiences and critics, and, in 1999, he was unequivocally voted the most important film director of the 1990s by two international critics polls.[16] Four of his films placed in the top six of Cinematheque Ontario's Best of the '90s poll.[17] He has gained recognition from film theorists, critics, as well as peers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Nanni Moretti (who made a short film about opening one of Kiarostami's films in his theater in Rome), Chris Marker, Ray Carney, and Akira Kurosawa, who said of Kiarostami's films: "Words cannot describe my feelings about them ... When Satyajit Ray passed on, I was very depressed. But after seeing Kiarostami’s films, I thanked God for giving us just the right person to take his place."[7][18] Critically-acclaimed directors such as Martin Scorsese have commented that "Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema."[19] In 2006, The Guardian's panel of critics ranked Kiarostami as the best non-American film director.[20]

A poster from the "Kiarostami event" at The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival (2004)
A poster from the "Kiarostami event" at The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival (2004)

Nevertheless, critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum have argued that "there's no getting around the fact that the movies of Abbas Kiarostami divide audiences—in this country, in his native Iran, and everywhere else they're shown."[21] Rosenbaum argues that disagreements and controversy over Kiarostami's pictures have arisen from his style of filmmaking because what in Hollywood would count as essential narrative information is frequently missing from Kiarostami's films. Camera placement, likewise, often defies standard audience expectations. In the closing sequences of Life and Nothing More and Through the Olive Trees, the audience is forced to imagine missing scenes. In Homework and Close-Up, parts of the sound track have been masked, or drop in and out.

While Kiarostami has won significant acclaim in Europe for several of his films, the Iranian government has refused to permit the showing of his films in his native Iran. Kiarostami has responded, "The government has decided not to show any of my films for the past 10 years... I think they don't understand my films and so prevent them being shown just in case there is a message they don't want to get out".[19] However, Kiarostami has faced opposition in the United States as well. In 2002, he was refused a visa to attend the New York Film Festival in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.[22][23] Festival director Richard Pena, who had invited him, said: "It's a terrible sign of what's happening in my country today that no one seems to realize or care about the kind of negative signal this sends out to the entire Muslim world".[19] Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki boycotted the festival in protest.[24] Kiarostami had been invited by the New York International Film Festival, as well as Ohio University and Harvard University.[25]

In 2005, London Film School organized a festival of the Kiarostami’s work, named "Abbas Kiarostami: Visions of the Artist", as well as a workshop. Ben Gibson, Director of the London Film School, said, "Very few people have the creative and intellectual clarity to invent cinema from its most basic elements, from the ground up. We are very lucky to have the chance to see a master like Kiarostami thinking on his feet."[26] In 2007, The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center co-organized a festival of the Kiarostami's work, named "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker".[27] Kiarostami and his cinematic style have been the subject of several books and two films namely Il Giorno della prima di Close Up (1996), directed by Nanni Moretti and Abbas Kiarostami - The Art Of Living (2003), directed by Fergus Daly.

[edit] Honors and awards

Kiarostami accepting a lifetime achievement award from Martin Scorsese in Marrakech International Film Festival.
Kiarostami accepting a lifetime achievement award from Martin Scorsese in Marrakech International Film Festival.

Kiarostami has won the admiration of audiences and critics worldwide and received some 70 awards till 2000.[28] Here are some representatives:

[edit] Film festival work

Kiarostami was a member of the jury at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and in 2005 president of the Camera d'or Jury
Kiarostami was a member of the jury at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and in 2005 president of the Camera d'or Jury

Kiarostami was a member of the jury at numerous festivals, most notably the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, 2002 and 2005. He was also the president of the Camera d'or Jury in Cannes Film Festival 2005.

Some representatives:[29][30]

[edit] Books by Kiarostami

[edit] See also

Kiarostami's poetry collection: Walking with the wind (2002)
Kiarostami's poetry collection: Walking with the wind (2002)
Kiarostami's films
Kiarostami's assistants
General

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Panel of critics (2006). The world's 40 best directors. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  2. ^ a b Karen Simonian (2002). Abbas Kiarostami Films Featured at Wexner Center. Wexner center for the art. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  3. ^ a b 2002 Ranking for Film Directors. British Film Institute (2002). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  4. ^ a b Ivone Margulies (2007). Abbas Kiarostami. Princeton University. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  5. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami Biography. Firouzan Film (2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  6. ^ a b c d Abbas fabulous. theage.com.au (2003). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Abbas Kiarostami: Biography. Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  8. ^ a b Ed Hayes (2002). 10 x Ten: Kiarostami’s journey. Open Democracy. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  9. ^ a b Landscapes of the mind. Guardian Unlimited (2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  10. ^ a b Ari Siletz (2006). Besides censorship. iranian.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  11. ^ a b Judy Stone and Ari Siletz. Not Quite A Memoire. Firouzan Films. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  12. ^ a b Jeff Lambert (2000). 43rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Sense of Cinema.
  13. ^ a b c d Narguess Farzad (2005). Simplicity and Bliss: Poems of Abbas Kiarostami. Iran Heritage Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  14. ^ Kiarostami mostra fotos de neve (Kiarostami shows snow photographs) (Portuguese) - a newspaper article on the display of Untitled Photographs in Lisbon.
  15. ^ a b Riccardo Zipoli (2005). Uncertain Reality: A Topos in Kiarostami's Poems and Films. Iran Heritage Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  16. ^ a b Dorna Khazeni (2002). Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past Present and Future, by Hamid Dabashi.. Brightlightsfilms. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  17. ^ a b Jason Anderson (2002). Carried by the wind: Films by Abbas Kiarostami. Eye Weekley. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  18. ^ a b Cynthia Rockwell (2001). Carney on Cassavetes: Film critic Ray Carney sheds light on the work of legendary indie filmmaker, John Cassavetes.. NEFilm. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  19. ^ a b c d e f Stuart Jeffries (2005). Abbas Kiarostami - Not A Martyr. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  20. ^ a b Panel of critics (2006). The world's 40 best directors. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  21. ^ a b
  22. ^ a b Andrew O'Hehir (2002). Iran's leading filmmaker denied U.S. visa. Salon.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  23. ^ a b Iranian director hands back award. BBC (2002). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  24. ^ a b Celestine Bohlen (2002). Abbas Kiarostami Controversy at the 40th NYFF. Human Rights Watch. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  25. ^ a b Jacques Mandelbaum (2002). No entry for Kiarostami. Le Monde. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  26. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami workshop 2- 10 May 2005. Pars times (2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  27. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker. Museum of Modern Art (2007). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  28. ^ a b Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (2002). Abbas Kiarostami. Sense of Cinema. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  29. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami. IndiePix (2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  30. ^ a b Abbas Kiarostami. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  31. ^ Kiarostami mostra fotos de neve (Kiarostami shows snow photographs) (Portuguese) - a newspaper article on the display of Untitled Photographs in Lisbon.

[edit] Secondary literature

The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena

Books:

  • Erice-Kiarostami. Correspondences, 2006, ISBN 8496540243, catalogue of an exhibition together with the spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice
  • Alberto Elena, The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, Saqi Books 2005, ISBN 0-86356-594-8
  • Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abbas Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors), University of Illinois Press 2003 (Paperback), ISBN 0-252-07111-5
  • Jean-Luc Nancy, The Evidence of Film - Abbas Kiarostami, Yves Gevaert, Belgium 2001, ISBN 2-930128-17-8
  • Jean-claude Bernardet, Caminhos de Kiarostami, Melhoramentos; 1 edition (2004), ISBN 978-8535905717
  • Marco Dalla Gassa, Abbas Kiarostami, Publisher: Mani (2000) ISBN 978-8880121473
  • Youssef Ishaghpour, Le réel, face et pile: Le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami , Farrago (2000) ISBN 978-2844900630
  • Alberto Barbera and Elisa Resegotti (editors), Kiarostami, Electa (April 30, 2004) ISBN 978-8837023904
  • Slavoj Žižek, Lacan: The Silent Partners (Wo Es War), Verso (April 15, 2006) ISBN 978-1844675494

Articles:

  • Kretzschmar, Laurent "Is Cinema Renewing Itself?", Film-Philosophy. vol. 6 no. 15, July 2002.
  • Rosenbaum, Jonathan, "Lessons from a Master," Chicago Reader, June 14, 1996 (Other early Chicago Reader articles on Kiarostami: October 23, 1992 and September 29, 1995)

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Persondata
NAME Kiarostami, Abbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film director, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran, Iran
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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