Ten ideas about Abbas Kiarostami

Abstract

The paper presents ten theoretical thoughts selected in the cinematographic work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Based on analysis of the film Ten, released in 2002, and some of the filmmaker’s other achievements, the paper discusses epistemological notions present in urban spaces and represented by the technique of cinema (are discussed). Inserted in the study of audiovisual communication, the following discussion fields were recognized in their convergence between distinct films and their aesthetic proposals: space, reality, place, social criticism, framing, speech, environment, displacement, social nature and confinement.

Keywords Abbas Kiarostami; Iranian cinema; confinement; social space