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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. (Criterion)
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Twenty-four animated and still images made more alive with movement and sound. Animals and people are placed in a
mostly natural environment of meadows and coasts, swept by diverse weather. Each image is characterized by rather
gray to grim colors. No sunshine. Abbas Kiarostami adds space-time and things happening to the moments that painters
capture in a single moment. Frame 21 was the clear winner to me. [Cannes]
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