Abbas Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami (2015)

Abbas Kiarostami ( Persian عباس كيارستمى; * June 22, 1940 in Tehran ; † July 4, 2016 in Paris ) was an Iranian screenwriter , film director and poet . He is considered one of the great directors in world cinema.

Life

Kiarostami was born in Tehran as the son of a painter and decorator. After winning a painting competition at the age of 18, he began studying at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran . In order to finance his living, he also worked as a traffic policeman during this time. In 1968 he finished his studies with a bachelor's degree. In 1969 he made his first short film Nan va Kutcheh . In 1974 his first full-fledged feature film Mossafer was released . At the end of the 1980s, Kiarostami was best known for his film Where is my friend's house? also known internationally.

The 1969 marriage to Parvin Amir-Gholi was divorced in 1982. The relationship resulted in two sons, Ahmad (* 1971) and Bahman Kiarostami (* 1978). The latter also works as a film director.

In July 2016, Kiarostami died at the age of 76 as a result of medical malpractice. According to his family, he had been operated on in Iran four months earlier to remove colon polyps - actually a routine operation. Three more operations followed to repair damage caused by the first operation, including A. Blood poisoning, fix it. The death caused a heated debate over the patient's right to information in Iran, as neither Kiarostami nor his family were informed by the doctors about the real condition of the patient and this is arguably a widespread abuse in Iran. The family was able to react too late and Kiarostami was able to fly to Paris for medical treatment, where he died as a result of the complications previously caused. He was buried in the cemetery in the small town of Lavasan in the province of Tehran .

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Kiarostami's films show the influence of Tati , Rossellini and Bresson . He mostly shot without a specific script. Filmmakers praised Kiarostami's skills in dealing with child and amateur actors . But his work is particularly important because he makes the social position of the cinema and the director as well as the real relationships between film (camera) and object the subject of his films. The result is a meta cinema that oscillates between documentation and fiction. The films seem to strive to make their artificiality and construction visible. The limits of the possibilities of cinema are explored and often seem to be exceeded in a transcendental act.

Kiarostami's work is also recognized by other film directors. The quote is ascribed to Jean-Luc Godard : The film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. And Martin Scorsese describes Kiarostami as a representative of the highest artistic level in cinema . In 2006 the Austrian director Michael Haneke counted Abbas Kiarostami among the best living directors.

To this day, Kiarostami's films are still little known to a broader audience in the West. Kiarostami's work is closely related to Iranian and Persian poetry. The Persian literature has mainly passed on through the poetry and worked throughout history as a carrier of national identity of Iranians. Poetry, under historical circumstances, was the only possible art after the Islamization of the country in the seventh century. Kiarostami builds his dramaturgy on this poetic basis in order to tell his own poetry. Poetry that tells not the film adaptation of poetry, but the poetry of modern cinema. You can assign your cinema to a genre that is a mixture of occidental and oriental culture. In contrast to poetic cinema, this genre of cinema poetry not only tells of real life, but also of the images on the screen. As if the audience lived this cinema on the screen. In this context, the images present the modern philosophy of cinema on the screen that cinema is reality.

Three works by him: Where is my friend's house? , And Life Goes On (Life and Nothing More) and Across the Olive Grove , known as the trilogy, are exemplary examples of the development of his cinema.

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Professor of Film and Film History at Columbia College Chicago, writes about Kiarostami's life's work: “His influence on contemporary Iranian cinema can be seen everywhere, in his turn to realistic, real-life stories, the focus on simple people and in the mixture of documentation and fiction. But just as important is the beauty of his films, the gift of showing the souls of his amateur actors and Iran's great landscapes. Despite their minimalism, his films are at the same time ostensibly simple and deeply philosophical, playful and desperate, they draw their depth from the multitude of their contradictions. "

Prizes and awards

Abbas Kiarostami has won over 70 international awards for his films, the first in 1970 for Bread and Alley at the 5th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Iran 1970. In 1997 he was awarded the Golden at the Cannes International Film Festival Palme was awarded for his film The Taste of the Cherry . Two years later he received various awards at the Venice Film Festival for his film The Wind Will Carry Us . In 2003 he received the Konrad Wolf Prize and in 2004 the Japanese Praemium Imperiale . His 2010 film Die Liebesfälscher won 9 first prizes in international competitions and was nominated for over 20 other prizes, including the Palme d'Or in Cannes.

In 2014 Kiarostami was awarded the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art .

In 2016 he was posthumously awarded The Asian Filmmaker of the Year at the 21st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) .

His film Ten (2002) was included in the list of " BBC Culture's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century ".

Poetry

A first collection of poems by Abbas Kiarostami appeared in Tehran in 1999. It consists of 221 short, floating, light and laconically powerful texts that are stylistically close to Japanese haiku poetry . After it had previously been translated into English, French and Italian, it was translated into German by Shirin Kumm and Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe in 2004 under the title In Accompaniment of the Wind by Suhrkamp Verlag. Peter Handke wrote the afterword .

  • Un loup aux aguets . Trad. du persan par Jean-Claude Carrière et Nahal Tajadod. Paris: Gallimard 2008. ISBN 2-7103-3066-0

Filmography

  • 1970: Nan va Kutcheh (short film)
  • 1972: Zang-e Tafrih (short film)
  • 1973: Tajrobeh
  • 1974: Mossafer
  • 1975: Manam Mitunam (short film)
  • 1975: Do Rahehal baraye yek Massaleh (short film)
  • 1976: Rang-ha (short film)
  • 1976: Lebasi baraye Arusi
  • 1977: Gozaresh
  • 1977: Bozorgdasht-e mo'allem (short film)
  • 1977: Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim? (Short film)
  • 1978: Rah-e Hal-e Yek (short film)
  • 1979: Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dowom (documentation)
  • 1980: Behdaasht-e Dandan (short film)
  • 1981: Be Tartib ya Bedun-e Tartib (short film)
  • 1982: Hamsarayan (short film)
  • 1983: Hamshahri (documentation)
  • 1983: Dandan Dard (short film)
  • 1984: Avaliha (documentary)
  • 1987: The Key (Kelid)
  • 1988: where is my friend's house? (Khane-ye dust kodjast?)
  • 1989: Mashgh-e Shab (documentary)
  • 1990: Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik)
  • 1992: And life goes on (Zendegi va digar hitch)
  • 1994: Across the olive grove (Zire darakhtan zeytun)
  • 1995: A propos de Nice - How it went on (A propos de Nice, la suite)
  • 1997: The taste of the cherry (Ta'm e gilass)
  • 1999: The wind will carry us (Bad ma-ra khahad bord)
  • 2001: ABC Africa
  • 2002: Ten (Dah)
  • 2003: Five Dedicated to Ozu
  • 2004: 10 on Ten
  • 2005: tickets
  • 2006: Roads of Kiarostami (short documentary film)
  • 2007: Kojast jaye residan (documentary short film)
  • 2007: Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au cœur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (segment Where is my Romeo? )
  • 2008: Shirin
  • 2010: The Forgers of Love (Copie conforme)
  • 2012: Like Someone in Love
  • 2016: 24 frames

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: Silence and Moving Images . Museum Situation Kunst, Bochum, then 2013 in the Museum Wiesbaden and in Chemnitz. Catalog.

literature

  • Abbas Kiarostami: Textes, entretiens, filmographie complète . Ed. de l'Etoile, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-86642-196-5 (Cahiers du Cinéma Livres).
  • Abbas Kiarostami: Photographies . Hazan, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-85025-673-0 (landscape photographs by Kiarostami, with a conversation with M. Ciment).
  • Alain Bergala, Jordi Balló (Ed.): Erice-Kiarostami. Correspondences . ACTAR, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-96540-24-3 (catalog for a joint exhibition with the Spanish director Víctor Erice ).
  • Alain Bergala: Abbas Kiarostami . Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-86642-374-7 .
  • Alberto Elena: The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami . Saqi Books, London 2005, ISBN 0-86356-594-8 .
  • Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum: Abbas Kiarostami . University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill. 2003, ISBN 0-252-07111-5 (Paperback; Contemporary Film Directors series).
  • Jean-Luc Nancy , Abbas Kiarostami: Evidence of the Film . Brinkmann and Bose, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-922660-92-4 .
  • Youssef Ishaghpour: Le réel, face et pile - le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami . Farrago, Tours 2006, ISBN 2-84490-063-1 .
  • Eberhard Ostermann: Taste of Cherry - an allegory of conflict. In: EO: The Movie Count. Eight exemplary analyzes. Munich (Fink) 2007. pp. 131-145. ISBN 978-3-7705-4562-9 .
  • Abolfazl Tavassolie: A Trilogy on Monism . The interaction between Persian literature and Abbas Kiarostami's cinema. Dr. Koester, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89574-701-4 .
  • Abbas Kiarostami. Still and Moving Images / Images, Still and Moving, Exhibition Cat. Situation art (for Max Imdahl), Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, ed. by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Alexander Klar and Ingrid Mössinger, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3436-3
  • Abbas Kiarostami. The generation of visibility (Marburg writings on media research, vol. 50), ed. by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe and Oliver Fahle, Marburg: Schüren, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89472-887-8

Web links

Commons : Abbas Kiarostami  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: On the death of Abbas Kiarostami: The Guru with the Child's View , Spiegel Online , July 5, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Abbas Kiarostami, Acclaimed Iranian Filmmaker, Dies at 76 at New York Times, accessed July 5, 2016.
  3. ^ Obituary , The New York Times , July 4, 2016, accessed November 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Abbas Kiarostami death sparks debate on patient's right to be informed in Iran , The Guardian, July 14, 2016, accessed March 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ Something becomes visible in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on July 10, 2016, page 53.
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLUqcHIBxc 3:27 - Peter Scarlet, close friend of Kiarostami at an event in memory of the filmmaker and his work at the SVA Theater in NYC on July 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ Iranians turn out en masse for Kiarostami's funeral , Press TV , July 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Abbas Kiarostami-Not A Martyr Countercurrents.org, in English.
  9. ^ The world's 40 best directors in The Guardian , February 2006.
  10. ↑ Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa: The Shortest Way to the Truth: Kiarostami Remembered in: Criterion, July 11, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2017.
  11. ↑ List of prices , accessed on January 3, 2017.
  12. ↑ Busan honors Kiarostami with Asian Filmmaker of Year Award The Iran Project, accessed December 1, 2016.
  13. ↑ Reviews in perlentauder.de , accessed on July 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ Pictures as if nature had created them , in FAZ of October 18, 2012, page 29.
personal data
SURNAME Kiarostami, Abbas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian screenwriter, film director and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH 4th july 2016
Place of death Paris