2017 · experimental · posthumous · still-image
24 Frames
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami1h 54m2017
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
Our read: 24 Frames (2017) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, surreal experimental · posthumous · still-image entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle experimental / posthumous, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
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