Kiarostami, Abbas

(ăbô`sā kēyô`rōmămē'), 1940–2016, Iranian filmmaker. Widely acclaimed as Iran's greatest film director, he typically explores the lives of ordinary Iranians in his films, the realism of which is mingled with questions of a moral and philosophical nature and verges on parable. Early in his career he was a commercial artist and directed television commercials. In 1969 he founded a film division for a Tehran institute, which became a leading film studio; there he made his first film, the lyrical short Bread and Alley (1970). Kiarostami released his first full-length feature film in 1977. In the late 1980s his films began to be shown outside Iran, and he attracted major critical attention with Close-Up (1990), about a fraud. The film blurs the lines between the real and the fictional, an approach he often employed; he also often mixed actors with non-actors. His other films include the Koker Trilogy (1987, 1992, 1994), named for the earthquake-ravaged (1990) village where the action mainly occurs; Taste of Cherry (1997), in which a man determined to commit suicide who searches for someone willing to bury him; The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), in which many characters are heard but not seen; and the experimental Shirin (2008). The enigmatic Certified Copy (2011), in which a cultivated European couple may just have met or may be long married, was his first feature made outside Iran. Completed posthumously, 24 Frames (2017) consists of 24 images, mostly his own stark landscape photographs, that become digitally animated vignettes. Kiarostami wrote screenplays, most famously for The White Balloon (1995), and also was a photographer and a poet.

Bibliography

See studies by M. Saeed-Vafa and J. Rosenbaum (2003) and A. Elena (2005).

单词	kiarostami, abbas
释义	Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas (ăbô`sā kēyô`rōmămē'), 1940–2016, Iranian filmmaker. Widely acclaimed as Iran's greatest film director, he typically explores the lives of ordinary Iranians in his films, the realism of which is mingled with questions of a moral and philosophical nature and verges on parable. Early in his career he was a commercial artist and directed television commercials. In 1969 he founded a film division for a Tehran institute, which became a leading film studio; there he made his first film, the lyrical short Bread and Alley (1970). Kiarostami released his first full-length feature film in 1977. In the late 1980s his films began to be shown outside Iran, and he attracted major critical attention with Close-Up (1990), about a fraud. The film blurs the lines between the real and the fictional, an approach he often employed; he also often mixed actors with non-actors. His other films include the Koker Trilogy (1987, 1992, 1994), named for the earthquake-ravaged (1990) village where the action mainly occurs; Taste of Cherry (1997), in which a man determined to commit suicide who searches for someone willing to bury him; The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), in which many characters are heard but not seen; and the experimental Shirin (2008). The enigmatic Certified Copy (2011), in which a cultivated European couple may just have met or may be long married, was his first feature made outside Iran. Completed posthumously, 24 Frames (2017) consists of 24 images, mostly his own stark landscape photographs, that become digitally animated vignettes. Kiarostami wrote screenplays, most famously for The White Balloon (1995), and also was a photographer and a poet. Bibliography See studies by M. Saeed-Vafa and J. Rosenbaum (2003) and A. Elena (2005).
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