Description
For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images—most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife—and digitally animated each one into its own subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignette, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami, who helped finish the film after his father’s death
- New conversation between Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire
- New short documentary about the making of the film by Abbas Kiarostami collaborator Salma Monshizadeh
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
New cover by Sarah Habibi
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