Abbas Kiarostami is an Iranian film director who has earned international reputation as a master of the art of film making. He has been directing films for more than four decades. Films directed by him include documentaries and short films. Some films of Abbas Kiarostami have earned recognition from the film critics. Some of his well known films are The Wind Will Carry Us, A Taste of Cherry and Koker trilogy.
Abbas Kiarostami has worked not only as a film maker but also in many associated branches of film making like art direction, film direction and screenplay writing. He has even worked as a producer of some of the films. He was also a designer of publicity materials and credit titles. In fact, Abbas Kiarostami has excelled in many fields like paintings, illustration, graphic designing and photography. Abbas Kiarostami has also written poetry.
Abbas Kiarostami belongs to that generation of filmmakers which is popularly known as Iranian New Wave. This is a movement of the Persian cinema which was started in the year 1960. The exponents of this film movement include famous directors of Iran like Parviz Kimavi, Bahram Beizai, Sohrab Shahid
Saless and Forough Farrokhzad. All the exponents of the Iranian New Wave share many common things. They have used the method of allegorical story telling and use of duologue in the form of poetry. These techniques are used to deal with the philosophical and political issues.
Abbas Kiarostami has very aptly used children as the main characters in many of his narrative films made in the documentary style. |
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The settings of these stories are mostly set in the rural villages. This hollywood director is known for his unique use of the works of the contemporary poets of Iran in many of his films. One of the main features of films of Abbas Kiarostami is that he has used the stationary mounted camera for capturing the scenes of conversation in the places like inside a car.
In the year 2002, Abbas Kiarostami directed the film Ten. This is a film depicting the socio-political landscape of Iran. Abbas Kiarostami's famous documentary on the Ugandan orphans ABC Africa is made on the plight of the orphans in Uganda. He has also directed the film Five. This is a film with no dialog or characterization. This film is made on the poetic style.
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